Here's comet 2009 R1 McNaught looking rather lovely in the 20" in the early morning of June the 14th. I made it about 5.9 magnitude but that's with a lot of dawn twilight. I also snapped it with at least a degree long tail on the 22nd before midnight, and the 3 of us that observed it thought it looked greeny blue in the 8". This image, next to a bright star in Perseus, is probably the last image the 20" gave while using its old stepper motors with Scope software . It now has servo motors, digital encoders and new software/hardware in place (thanks to B.A.S.) and I can't wait to test it.
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Monday, 28 June 2010
Comet McNaught
Here's comet 2009 R1 McNaught looking rather lovely in the 20" in the early morning of June the 14th. I made it about 5.9 magnitude but that's with a lot of dawn twilight. I also snapped it with at least a degree long tail on the 22nd before midnight, and the 3 of us that observed it thought it looked greeny blue in the 8". This image, next to a bright star in Perseus, is probably the last image the 20" gave while using its old stepper motors with Scope software . It now has servo motors, digital encoders and new software/hardware in place (thanks to B.A.S.) and I can't wait to test it.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Comet 2009 R1 McNaught
..just a quick one to show what we have in the skies now. Here's last Saturday night's showing of the comet that's set to brighten and pop its head over the dawn horizon during June 2010. As the comet was low in the sky it is not a very deep image. It was quite unusual to be looking at the constellation Andromeda in May.
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