Nice break in the weather here at my place and Comet Garradd is looking rather nice next to M-71: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/garradd-m71.jpg Just a "quick and dirty" 60 second shot taken between other projects. I'm looking forward to seeing what those who are good at taking "pretty pictures" do with the scene. patrick
Nice pairing, Patrick. I had thought from the Starry Night planetarium program that the comet's tail would cross M71 most of the night, but I can see it's not long enough. I think Starry Night just guessed at the tail's dimensions and they overestimated it. Still a cool view, though. -- Joe ________________________________ From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:56 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] The comet and the cluster Nice break in the weather here at my place and Comet Garradd is looking rather nice next to M-71: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/garradd-m71.jpg Just a "quick and dirty" 60 second shot taken between other projects. I'm looking forward to seeing what those who are good at taking "pretty pictures" do with the scene. patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php
Thanks Joe, You can probably see in the shot that the tail is pointed at M-71. And if I really, REALLY stretch the image I can see that the tail was covering the cluster. But that made the image so contrasty and the comet and cluster so overblown that it just made an awful image. Surely there are those out there with bigger scopes and better processing skills who will post great looking shots with the tail enveloping the cluster. BTW, the image I posted was raw. No dark, no flat. I did no processing at all except for the conversion to JPG. patrick On 27 Aug 2011, at 03:07, Joe Bauman wrote:
Nice pairing, Patrick. I had thought from the Starry Night planetarium program that the comet's tail would cross M71 most of the night, but I can see it's not long enough. I think Starry Night just guessed at the tail's dimensions and they overestimated it. Still a cool view, though. -- Joe
Thanks for sharing that Patrick. I fear that may be the best and only view a visual observer gets of the comet this weekend! On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Thanks Joe,
You can probably see in the shot that the tail is pointed at M-71.
And if I really, REALLY stretch the image I can see that the tail was covering the cluster. But that made the image so contrasty and the comet and cluster so overblown that it just made an awful image.
Surely there are those out there with bigger scopes and better processing skills who will post great looking shots with the tail enveloping the cluster.
BTW, the image I posted was raw. No dark, no flat. I did no processing at all except for the conversion to JPG.
patrick
On 27 Aug 2011, at 03:07, Joe Bauman wrote:
Nice pairing, Patrick. I had thought from the Starry Night planetarium program that the comet's tail would cross M71 most of the night, but I can see it's not long enough. I think Starry Night just guessed at the tail's dimensions and they overestimated it. Still a cool view, though. -- Joe
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Thanks for the picture! On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for sharing that Patrick. I fear that may be the best and only view a visual observer gets of the comet this weekend!
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com
wrote:
Thanks Joe,
You can probably see in the shot that the tail is pointed at M-71.
And if I really, REALLY stretch the image I can see that the tail was covering the cluster. But that made the image so contrasty and the comet and cluster so overblown that it just made an awful image.
Surely there are those out there with bigger scopes and better processing skills who will post great looking shots with the tail enveloping the cluster.
BTW, the image I posted was raw. No dark, no flat. I did no processing at all except for the conversion to JPG.
patrick
On 27 Aug 2011, at 03:07, Joe Bauman wrote:
Nice pairing, Patrick. I had thought from the Starry Night planetarium program that the comet's tail would cross M71 most of the night, but I can see it's not long enough. I think Starry Night just guessed at the tail's dimensions and they overestimated it. Still a cool view, though. -- Joe
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