> > From: > Tom C > This might be the last day anyone in the N. hemisphere (mid to > northern latitudes) will see it. Best opportunities are sunset and > the next 30 minutes. >
Lucked onto it last Wednesday 10Jan07 We had a beautiful sunset that faded the instant I plopped my tripod down Tuesday night. I promised myself I'd be set up to photograph the sunset in plenty of time on Wednesday. Sunset Wednesday turned out to be nothing much, very little cloud for the sun to light up. After it went below the horizon, I packed up and headed back to the car. When I got there I met another photographer unpacking to go set up. He asked if I was there to photograph the comet. "What comet? ... I guess I am now ..." We were out on a flood control dam shooting west over a lake, which gave a low horizon. I got maybe a dozen images, none of them spectacular, but at least one does show a decent bit of the comet's tail. And I got to see it with my naked eye, as well as through the lens. It was a slightly better apparition than I remember Halley's comet being back in 1986 (very low on the horizon from where I live & mostly lost in atmospheric haze). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
