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Another clear night last night with Comet Leonard.
The tail is developing nice tail feathers. Taken with 8"f6.4 Vixen VC200L.
ISO 1600 11 x 60s. In this image, about 1 degree of tail is visible
(two full Moon diameters).
This one just for fun...a picture of Comet Leonard taken just 40 mins after
sunset with a 300mm lens. Sky was still bright blue and the Sun only 8 degrees
below the horizon. I also picked it up visually in binoculars at this same time.
Wide angle image of the tail. Using a 300mm lens, I captured approximately 3 degrees
of tail in this image taken with a Pentax K5, ISO 800, 15 x 30s, Pentax 300mm f4 EDIF.
Amateur astronomer since 1978...................Web site :http://joe-cali.com/ Scopes: ATM 18" Dob, Vixen VC200L, ATM 6"f7, Stellarvue 102ED, Saxon ED80, WO M70 ED, Orion 102 Maksutov, ST80. Mounts: Takahashi EM-200, iOptron iEQ45, Push dobsonian with Nexus DSC, three homemade EQ's. Eyepieces: TV Naglers 31, 17, 12, 7; Denkmeier D21 & D14; Pentax XW10, XW5, Unitron 40mm Kellner, Meade Or 25,12 Cameras : Pentax K1, K5, K01, K10D / VIDEO CAMS : TacosBD, Lihmsec. Cam/guider/controllers: Lacerta MGEN 3, SW Synguider, Simulation Curriculum SkyFi 3+Sky safari Memberships Astronomical Association of Queensland; RASNZ Occultations Section; Single Exposure Milky Way Facebook Group (Moderator) (12k members), The Sky Searchers (moderator)
