Comet Update
http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi View archives: January 29, 2007
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: http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/mcnaught/29jan07/Garradd1_strip.jpg
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.
http://www.spaceweather.com/index.cgi View archives: January 30, 2007
CIRCUMPOLAR COMET: 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. [gallery] [finder chart]
