[Leica] IMG: Comet NEOWISE 2020

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

I dug into my archives and came up with this image of Hale-Bopp from spring 1997, imaged on Ektachrome with a Hasselblad 500CM and 80mm Planar @ 2.8. The camera was mounted on the tube of my 6” refractor on a tracking mount. Exposure unrecorded, but to judge from the trailing of the foreground trees (and the ISO of the film), it was a couple of minutes. Taken under light-polluted skies from my front yard 3 miles east of Toledo Express Airport.

It wasn’t until I became familiar with the magic of petitioning St. Photoshoppis* for the blessing of a crippled slide many years later that I realized I had a useable image. The album shows the before & after.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Hale-Bopp/Hale-Bopp-1.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Hale-Bopp/Hale-Bopp-1.jpg.html>


C&C welcome.

—howard

*I believe it’s pronounced “fo-TOSH-uhppis”.





> On Jul 8, 2020, at 8:46 AM, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Got up at 4:00 AM this morning and drove out north of town to get away from the city lights. Set up the tripod. Looked for comet NEOWISE in the NE sky but couldn’t pick it out but a pair of (Leica - see? on topic) binoculars found it right away.
> 
> Astro photography is a bit of a different thing for me. I made some mistakes. I should have used the delay on the camera so I got a bit of tripod shake. But I did make a comet photo!
> 
> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/MiscUsage/Astronomy/i-DwpdHCL/A>
> 
> Fujifilm GFX100 with 250mm f4 lens. 1.3 seconds @ ISO 2000.
> 
> It was fun to see the comet which was naked-eye visible as my eyes got adjusted. Of course the sky was lightening also.
> 
> Thanks for looking!
> 
> Adam Bridge
> Davis, CA
> 
> 
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