Comet Lovejoy
Taken by Houston Haynes on January 24, 2015 @ My first ever image of Comet Lovejoy, and it will more than likely be my last. This is my farwell shot, taken on a night just before the waxing moon began to wash out the skies. What will be of humanity the next time she arrives?
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My first ever image of Comet Lovejoy, and it will more than likely be my last. This is my farwell shot, taken on a night just before the waxing moon began to wash out the skies. What will be of humanity the next time she arrives?
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Hello Mike
Very nice first image! Welcome to the world of astro-photography.

Can you indicate what camera and telescopic equipment you used?

If I were you, and had your fine equipment, I would not give up due to the moon! You can still take many more images of Comet Lovejoy as it [will continue to be quite visible before reaching perihelion- closest approach to the sun soon.] Just keep shooting and maybe make up a nice animation-composite by video-stacking all your images. That seems to be the latest trend after one still shot for many of us. Although I have observed possibly over two dozen comets since my first in 1957 at age 3 then, when my father pointed to a fuzzy star in the western sky, and then I saw Sputnik go over a couple months later in October 1957.

Our parents handed me the camera on my birthday at age 3 to take photographs of them. The rest is history, but I did not excel at only photography as I became an art major in my college years >
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1579463287

Please keep up the good work with your comet photography!

And thank you for any further info about your equipment,

Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer, Portland/Sandy Oregon
Posted by markseibold 2015-01-26 16:55:02
Mike

I had to write again after looking at your image up close, as it appears that you also caught some distant galaxies in the background (at center left quadrant area of your image.) I think so much of the finer photographic equipment that us astronomers use today in high resolution digital form, is now becoming almost as if many new, if only mini-Hubble Deep Field images. Take a closer look at your overall image in the central left region.

Best regards,

Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer, Portland/Sandy Oregon
Posted by markseibold 2015-01-26 17:02:06
Dear Houston -

I apologize for addressing you as Mike earlier as I had previously written to another gentlemans comet imaging efforts, named Mike.

Houston, can you indicate where you are at? Also what camera and telescopic equipment that you used, as your fine efforts produced some very good distant galaxies in the background! I shared your great image just now on my Facebook page with others. > https://www.facebook.com/mark.seibold

Best regards,

Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer, Portland/Sandy Oregon
Posted by markseibold 2015-01-26 17:24:51
 
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