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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Comet NEOWISE 2020
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 19:19:02 +0100
References: <B2FCCC18-DB50-4499-9720-5D4363353EAB@mac.com> <C18F94A3-542B-4F13-945A-C8AF25CBD442@bex.net>

Wow Howard!...and you got the multiple tails.Fantrastic.

Peter



On 08/07/2020 22:21, Howard L Ritter Jr via LUG wrote:
> 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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Dr. Peter Dzwig


In reply to: Message from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] IMG: Comet NEOWISE 2020)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard L Ritter Jr) ([Leica] IMG: Comet NEOWISE 2020)