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Comet McNaught Photos

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Has anyone checked out Comet McNaught yet? Here's a couple of photos I took last night....don't forget to click on them to see them bigger
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good stuff mick, i saw it too.....was down the coast with the family, headed up to the top of the hill behind the house and saw it for a good 10 mins just after sunset.
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Not everyday you can take pics of your house with a comet backdrop :D ... I took this Monday. Are you saying this thing is still visible last night ?
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javaman wrote: Are you saying this thing is still visible last night ?
Yup
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Very cool :)
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Awesome pics guys, i wished i had a camera at work as we had an awesome view of it, would of been a great pic of it going over all the yachts on the lake :)
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Mick C wrote:Has anyone checked out Comet McNaught yet? Here's a couple of photos I took last night....don't forget to click on them to see them bigger
Great pics!

We saw it the other night, alas the smoke haze from bushfires up in the Alps is still hanging around and although it makes great sunsets, the haze drowned out the tail...so all we saw was the head as a very bright dot.

I have a telescope in the lounge, I may drag it down to the end of the drive this evening and see what I can see.
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javaman wrote:Not everyday you can take pics of your house with a comet backdrop :D ... I took this Monday. Are you saying this thing is still visible last night ?
looks like its gona crash through your roof, its not as bright as the one in the front yard tho :idea: nice pic anyway
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Man this shit has been killing me. The best comet in many years, probably the best most of us will see in our lifetimes, and I have had nothing but blocking cloud cover in the west the whole time.

Such crap timing, but I should be used it. A few years ago when the Leonids were really full on, that same night there was a freaking storm up here. I got maybe 5 mins of patchy cover and could see just a hint of the show that I was missing.

But seriously how fucked up is it that all of a sudden there is massive cloud cover in the west THE WHOLE DAMN TIME that this comet has been (apparently) visible? Meh.
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Did I mention I saw the total sun eclipse :D It was in 1983 I think ...
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There's some nice Pics on here, That you guys have taken !
Here's my couple of Pics !

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There's some nice Pics on here, That you guys have taken !
Here's my couple of Pics !

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It was still visible in the central west on sun night.

In fact the first thing the rels said when we got out of the car was "have you seen the comet yet?"
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we went out and had a look a few nights ago and we could see a faint glimpse of the tail and it long as, but couldn't see the actually comet itself. apprently its 300 million k's long
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we seen it on the way home from Qld, last week. Very impressive, T tried to get pics but the new fan dangled camera is being difficult to work out it's full usage....

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