Comets Compared
Taken by Mark Seibold on February 11, 2015 @
Mount Hood Oregon
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Date Taken: 2015:02:14 02:49:24
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This is obviously becoming the most photographed comet in history, and especially by those with very large high quality cameras and telescopes, although many of the average public may wonder why they cannot see it as naked easily nor at all within inner cities light pollution.
So I decided to construct an accurate comparison of my image that I produced in 1997 of Comet Hale-Bopp as seen from the White River Sno-Park just east of Mount Hood Oregon 35 miles east of my home town of Portland Oregon.
So I drove up to that location again a couple nights ago planning to take a close-up of Comet Lovejoy with my antique 55mm and 135mm telephoto lenses on my Sony NEX5 digital camera. As mentioned above I had made the same trip in 1997 to photograph Hale-Bopp.
First up here is the wide field panorama that I made, as I had to forego a close-up with the telescope tracking, as clouds soon prevailed. [February 11th 2015 at 10 pm local PST time.]
Then the next image is combined of the Comet Hale-Bopp as nearly in the same part of the sky and leaving Lovejoy there also to compare. See Comet Lovejoy just beneath Comet Hale-Bopp. Also compare to the Andromeda Galaxy as it just staves off the clouds approaching, long enough to capture it.
Finally the original image of Hale-Bopp on April 5th 1997 from this same location with my 35mm Mamiya/Sekor 35mm camera and 55mm stock Mamiya lens at f/1.4 for 35 seconds exposure time on a tripod unguided with Fuji 800 Super G film. There werent too many digital camera back then, 18 years ago then, that could take a photo like this.
- Mark Seibold, Artist-Astronomer Portland/Sandy Oregon
Photographer's website:
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/1579463287
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