Tracy, I've been out there trying to get a decent image of the comet for the last 3 weeks. I've been using my digital camera and finally got a pretty good set of images on the 29th. This is 6, 16 second images stacked, taken though a 10" Dob on a tracking platform. The comet is quite beautiful with a bright core and long tail. It appears very bluish green under dark skies. It should look much better with some elevation of your viewing location. I took my image at 9400 ft. elevation in the Colorado Rockies. Am hoping to get a chance to image it tomorrow night when it's very near the Andromeda Galaxy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~chikadee/cometIZ32902ip01.jpg There are some great IZ comet images at spaceweather.com Ginger Tracy wrote: Has anyone been able to get a good look/ take pictures of this comet? Viewing conditions in Maui have been crappy, with a nearly constant high overcast for the last 2 weeks, and horizon haze otherwise. And I'm too lazy to drive up 45 minutes to the tip-top of Haleakala and brave the chill and wind for 20 minutes of maybe-viewing before the comet sets at this latitude :-) For an island that has such great tourist appeal, we haven't had much amateur astronomy appeal lately. Tracy Latimer --admits to being a cosmic wimpout-- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
