Comet Lovejoy
Taken by Alexia on February 4, 2015 @ Belgium
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I've been hunting comet lovejoy for a month with binoculars, without luck, since I knew so much of the sky that the only constellation I could recognize was Orion plus I've got much city lights. I missed her next to the Pleiads when I finally could recognized the Pleiads cause I looked on the wrong side of them... Yesterday I thought I had finally gotten it not far from the first star of Andromeda. Today that fuzzy dot has moved closer to the Andromeda star so I guess I've finally caught up with it. Can real astronomers confirm this is the comet Lovejoy and that my stubborness paid? Thx! Pic taken with an old and battered Sony DSC-H5 exp 25sec f3.5 400iso photoshop treated. My first might sky picture so sorry for the bad quality.
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Alexia

It appears that you have done your homework well! I believe you caught Comet Lovejoy, and it is admirable that you have persisted so well with an old camera. This shows that you have great fortitude and aspirations for observational astronomy. I just checked the Sky & Telescope charts for tonight (at the bottom of page at this link) >

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/spot-comet-lovejoy-tonight-122920141/

...and it looks like you are right on it! We all started out with humble cameras and eventually worked up to larger higher resolution models. Many of us started with film cameras a half century ago.

I look forward to your continued observations and attempts at recording the comet again before it begins to fade soon. The moon is now waning so there are still chances to observe it this week provided we have clear skies in our regional locales.

Good luck and keep up the good science work!

Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer, Portland/Sandy Oregon

PS: I just completed one and my work is also with a now dated and worn out Sony NEX5. You can see other works from over 40 years past of the comets that I recorded caught with high speed film, transparencies, then eventually transitioning to my first digital camera in 2003, a Sony Cybershot pocket camera with Carl-Zeiss lens! Now the Sony NEX5 has passed over 50,000 exposures and about due for replacement, possibly the newer Sony A7. >

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1579463287
Posted by markseibold 2015-02-04 22:01:03
 
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