Comet PANSTARRS, Anyone else seen it yet? |
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Comet PANSTARRS, Anyone else seen it yet? |
 Apr 6 2013, 09:14 AM
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Blue skies for me today and no work tomorrow. The perfect conditions for me to get Stu's badge.
 EGD, what camera & lens combination was your Pleiades taken with? Andy |
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Apr 6 2013, 03:18 PM
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Andy the Pleiades image was taken with a Canon 60D using a 50-250 zoom at 250, f5.6, 1.0sec, ISO 1600. The image posted was 3800 pixels wide cropped from a 5100 pixel original.
Whenever I'm comparing lenses or other equipment in the night sky I like to use Pleiades since it's a large, easy-to-find target and really, the better the light gathering abilities, the more stars you are going to see. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 6 2013, 03:27 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I have treated myself to a 50mm f1.8 lens for my Canon, and am loving the results...
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Apr 6 2013, 05:12 PM
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Many thanks EGD - so you've a limiting mag of about 8.1 at 1 second ... not too shabby!
Meanwhile (of course!) it's clouding up nicely. No comet for me tonight.  Andy |
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Apr 8 2013, 02:02 PM
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I've managed to catch it once from the NY Metro area with binoculars - a solid little comet - nothing terribly memorable - unfortunately it is very low in the skies in NY after twilight ends, and there tends to be low clouds in the narrow range of azimuth where its visible above the NYC smog/extreme light pollution (5-7.5 degrees).
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Apr 8 2013, 10:43 PM
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Our club was out Saturday at our Starway to Heaven observing night in northern Westchester and couldn't see it. By the time it got dark enough, M31 and the comet were down in the trees and veiled in cirrus. Full story at:
http://www.facebook.com/WestchesterAstronomers |
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Apr 9 2013, 09:11 PM
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Apr 16 2013, 06:37 PM
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I've seen Panstarrs, at four in the morning while I were driving, visually. Mistook it for a distant contrail from one airplane at first.
 I'm not the only one in my neck of the woods who claim to have seen this comet with out bare eyes. Washington post and the image from Tänndalen. A nice sight yet still nothing compared to  (That's my image) |
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