ison comet

I saw the images Roland C posted in the images forum. (Worth checking out if you haven't seen them.)

I heard that the comet will pass so close to Mars in its trajectory (a few million miles) that NASA will be able to get some good lose up images.

Clears,
Joe

After seeing Roland's image, I took a few myself with an 8" AP refractor (from Northridge in the middle of Los Angeles). Ten ten-minute exposures. Here they are put together as an animated GIF (the comet is moving fast!): http://www.shbinstruments.com/ISON.gif

This is with the images aligned on the comet: http://www.shbinstruments.com/ISON-aligned.jpg

- Barry

Joseph Babendreier said:

I saw the images Roland C posted in the images forum. (Worth checking out if you haven't seen them.)

I heard that the comet will pass so close to Mars in its trajectory (a few million miles) that NASA will be able to get some good lose up images.

Clears,
Joe