Hey Ziggy, lets see if we can't do something with the lotto numbers then !

I had thought last night that there would be no more photos, but McNaught is just becoming like an old friend that doesn't want to say goodbye.

23.01.2007 8:12 PM



20 sec
f/2.8
ISO 800
30 mm

lucky beggar southern fellows! -what a fabulous shot again!
do not stop posting till it vanishes!

The Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught

Credit & Copyright: Robert H. McNaught

Explanation: Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, has grown a long and filamentary tail. The spectacular tail spreads across the sky and is visible to Southern Hemisphere observers just after sunset. The head of the comet remains quite bright and easily visible to even city observers without any optical aide. The amazing tail is visible on long exposures and even to the unaided eye from a dark location. Reports even have the tail visible just above the horizon after sunset for many northern observers as well. Comet McNaught, estimated at magnitude -2 (minus two), was caught by the comet's discoverer in the above image just after sunset last Friday from Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in decades, is now fading as it moves further into southern skies and away from the Sun and Earth.

NASA - APOD page

A Comet Tail Horizon

Credit & Copyright: Marco Fulle (Stromboli Online)

Explanation: What's happening over the horizon? Many a sky enthusiast who thought they had seen it all had never seen anything like this. To the surprise of many Northern Hemisphere observers, the tail of Comet McNaught remained visible even after the comet's head set ahead of the Sun. What's more, visible were bright but extremely rare filamentary striae from the comet's expansive dust tail. The cause of dust tail striae are not known for sure, but are possibly related to fragmentation of comet's nucleus. The last comet to show prominent striae was Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. Pictured above, the tail of Comet McNaught was caught just after sunset last Friday above the Carnic Alps of northern Italy.

NASA - APOD page

MORNING COMET: The Great Comet of 2007 has moved into the morning skies of the Southern Hemisphere. "Comet McNaught was an obvious naked-eye object with 15 degrees of tail visible this morning," reports Gordon Garradd of Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia. He took this picture at daybreak on Jan. 29th:

Although Comet McNaught is receding from Earth and fading, it remains an easy target for off-the-shelf digital cameras. A 30-second exposure is all that's required to produce a spectacular photo.
Finder charts: morning and evening.

more pictures from spaceweather.com

I live in athens-greece
Do you know if I can still see it? What hour of the day is it visible?

Last Night and previous nights we were plagued with the dreaded cloud.... This morning my wife and I got up about 4am and went to the back of the airport again. It was still there but not as impressive as we saw it a few nights ago. I managed to get one photo when the comet was visible between clouds.... It is the bottom center of picture, Not a very good one but its keeping the southern Hemisphere on our toes. There are some great shots from other parts of the world..

Last photo from us I'm afraid.. Comet McNaught is now getting to far away for my 16second Exposure. It has lost the brilliance it has had up to now.

Comet McNaught 22:26 30 Jan 2007

Comet McNaught is now a circumpolar object over New Zealand--"we can see the comet all night long," says Minoru Yoneto of Queenstown, NZ, who took advantage of the extra observing time to make a spectacular 5-minute exposure of the comet, the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.

http://spaceweather.com/

i will keep up posting still have some stuff...

thank you for your attention and shared documents!
good job!

Photographer Peter Ward didn't need a map to find Comet McNaught over Brisbane, Australia, on Jan. 29th.
"This cloud formation pointed it out to me," he says.

Photo details: Canon EOS 30D, 50mm lens, f/1.4, 8 seconds exposure.

The comet is receding from Earth and fading, but it is still visible to the unaided eye and an easy target for photographers in the Southern Hemisphere. Ward captured the comet in twilight-blue skies with the shutter open for only 8 seconds. Longer exposures after sunset produce truly spectacular results.

In case you don't have a cloud to point the way, here's a finder chart.

http://spaceweather.com/