Astroblog: Two comets together (3 March 2013)

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Two comets together (3 March 2013)

Comet C/2012 F6 Lemmon and C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS are together in this images (yes, you have to click to embiggen, and yes, you will have to wait a while because it's the full scale image).

While not as awesome as some images going around the web, this is a 15 second exposure on a Canon IXUS at 800 ASA. Yes, a tiny little point and shoot camera. Not bad at all really.

And yes, the whole thing is slightly tilted as the tripod is slightly out of true and I can't fix it.

Labels: astrophotography, comet, comets, unaided eye