Thanks Mark I for one am looking forward to seeing more Roma Sky images.. you certainly kicked things along there for a while. Hope the new Observatory works...
Hi All Thought I would share with the group have just become aware of a possible bright Comet for mid to end of this Month You may be aware that some...
Hi all, Since discovery on Aug 7, the small perihelion distance of this comet, well inside that of Mercury, has suggested the possibility that it could become...
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Sent the email too soon. Meant to add the following. At sunset on Jan 14, the comet will be located only 1.2 deg due right of Mercury which will then be mag...
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Hi Rob Thanks for the detailed report very interesting read and to have a report by the Discoverer/Member of the group and GStar user What a bonus! Did not...
Hi Rob, Thanks for sharing all this wonderful information with the group, and congratulations on the discovery of this gem. Hopefully we'll have clear skies...
Thanks Dave and Rob for sharing this info with the group. I'll definitely be attempting to image the comet. Perhaps it's good that we've had such a long run of...
G'day all, The draft notes I sent earlier are now a web page that may or may not be updated in the next day (and not for a week after that. If I have time I...
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Hello to all G-star users your Images are stunning! I love to brouse all these wonderful new images,soon they may be as good as some of the better color ccd...
Hi Phil If you can see the video on your Laptop then it's not the camera that's the problem. It will be something to do with your capture software or capture...
Hi Jon re>>Please check out my new web sight Star Tours Unlimited @ startoursunlimited.com FAR OUT!!! Is that seriously you???? I gotta star workin out :-) ...
Hi Jon Checked out your Web Site looks great Your 27 inch Dob lookS like a beast very well put to together Your mentioned that it is goto is that correct Do...
Hi Rob I think congrats are in order possible brighest Comet in Fourty Years or even the Century is what they are saying Some reports are putting it at Minus...
Hello All Not taken with a GStar, no time to set it all up, however, here is a link to my daytime shots at 6PM local Tasmania time. It was brilliant in 10 x 50...
Hi Shevill, Thanks for sharing those images. They look great. Imagine your 6pm shots under a dark sky. That would be something. Tried to image the comet on...
G'day all, I managed to get a quick image yesterday through layers of cloud (in gallery). No sign of a tail higher up as the sky darkened, still a lot of haze ...
Thanks, Steve I have been viewing it since around 9 am through the 90 APO, the tail is more observable with the eye. I have now set up the big guns, (SN-10)...
Hi All, I finally had a good few of P1 last twilight. I have to say I was pretty excited, as this is the first decent viewing of a comet I have had. It was ...
Good-one Michael Ah..so you got the Holden blimp too! We saw it over here on the northern beaches as well about the time the pizza arrived :-) Quite amazing...
Hi all Despite the horrid cloud band that seem to want to cover the comet from my backyard viewing, I finally managed a very basic image this evening using the...
... two nights at Gawarra and have seen it both nights. I took the 300mm dob tonight and it was visible enough to show the group of people who stopped to see...
Latest comets shots, in daytime 14th and evening 16th from Hobart, Tasmania. http://picasaweb.google.com/AstroTasmania/CometMcNaught2006P1 Also a GStar user...
For those interested in the planets, a new book is now out by Springer-Praxis Books called the Solar System Update. A current status on Solar System research. ...
Top effort Stevo, That is a clever use of whatever is at hand to get an image. Nicely done. cheers, frogrockqakka ... from ... evening ... a ... lenses ... the...
Hi all Well tonight I decided to go for a wider field of view without all the RGB fuss with the GSTAR and my bodgy telephoto lens. I pulled out the old VHS...
G'day all, WOW! Had a beautiful display tonight of Comet McNaught's tail. Estimated at about 20 degrees long. Imaged with the GSTAR and 8 mm lens with RGB...
Brilliant work Qakka. Glad to see you using the same questionable filtering technique with the camera as me well, where the comets concerned anyway. Just wish...
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