Posts by Tag: Comet
Comet Lovejoy and the Emu from Kioloa Beach

Comet Lovejoy and the Emu from Kioloa Beach

By on January 10, 2012 in Astrophotography

I’d been mostly thwarted by clouds in my attempts to view and photograph Comet Lovejoy leading up to christmas. It wasn’t until the last day of 2011 that I was able to get up early and head out to photograph the comet from our holiday place at Kioloa Beach, which by now had risen higher in the sky, grew a long tail that was almost 30 degrees long, but had also faded considerable compared to the brightest views from the 24th-26th December.

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Clouded Comet Lovejoy Timelapse

By on December 24, 2011 in Astrophotography

This timelapse of a clouded Comet Lovejoy was taken this morning, 24th December from just after 2am until about 4:30am.
I was there with my friends Andrew and Rod, and the cloud continued to tease us and never fully revealed the comet. It just sat right over the wrong spot! Very frustrating. But the timelapse turned out great :)

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Comet Lovejoy from Terrigal

Images of Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) – December 22nd

By on December 22, 2011 in Astrophotography

Comet Lovejoy (C/2011 W3) has turned out to be a magnificent comet. Discovered by Terry Lovejoy, an amateur astronomer and comet hunter from Queensland, it had a close encounter with the Sun and wasn’t expected to survive.
But survive it did – and in a major way. It’s now formed a tail that’s over 10deg long and is visible naked eye in the pre-dawn Eastern sky.

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Rainbow of Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) captured at IISAC2007

From the Vault: Comet McNaught C/2006 P1

By on January 16, 2009 in Astrophotography, Photography

Hi all From the Vault is a new idea for my site, where once a week i’ll feature an old image and bring it back to life here and give some background and information on capturing and processing the image(s). I’ll mainly concentrate on images taken over the past few years, before my site was [...]

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Dawn Moon Earthshine

Images in the Twilight

By on November 7, 2008 in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Photography

These images have been a long time coming – they were taken back in late June/early July, at Nambucca Heads on the mid-north coast of NSW when Anthony Wesley and I were there for a planetary imaging camp. I only just got around to processing them this week. I’m not sure why but I always [...]

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