Comet C/ 2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
Taken by Udo Schlegel on March 9, 2015 @
Remote site, 10 miles northwest of Rockford, Illinois.
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Camera Used: SONY NEX-6
Exposure Time: 30/1
Aperture: f/1.0
ISO: 12800
Date Taken: 2015:03:09 20:41:57
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Comet Lovejoy, chasing my Northwest Orient Airliner, NGC 457. North at top, East to the left. I named this neat open cluster this name about 40 yrs. ago, long before it was called the Owl Cluster. To me, especially through a telescope, it resembles a jet, with bright tail lights, and it's oriented N.W. in the sky, hence I named it after the then Northwest Orient commercial jet air liner company!
Details:Nikon NEX-6, A.P. 105mm Traveler@f6, 30 sec@ISO12800 on a Celestron CG-5 GT mount. The other wide field pix was taken with an old Minolta 80-160mm f3.5 zoom lens, set at f5.6, 30 sec exp., at ISO 6400, taken the day before on 8Mar2015. Same field orientation. No computer processing, just a single camera exposure.
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