Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]url would help: http://www.sonc.com/comet.htm I+n a message dated 12/28/2004 4:53:31 PM Central Standard Time, SonC@aol.com writes: In a message dated 12/28/2004 4:25:53 PM Central Standard Time, KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu writes: i know you've all been out photographing it. like i have, with a 50mm lens from the light polluted hood in west philly... http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2004/52/comet3.jpg it was pretty easy to find after looking at the sky chart on sky and telescope's web site, making some distance calculations and looking for the fuzzy blob. I don't know for sure if it is a halation or what, but just to the right of the main explosion, there "could be" the Comet. I was looking to the North East. The glow just above on the right is the full moon, and the shot was something like just after 7pm Central time. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish