My son and I went out on one of the first clear nights (Tuesday) we've had in a few weeks.
We looked in the direction that the comet should be - saw nothing. We stood there looking around from 20:00 to about 20:45 (that's a half-hour past sunset until well over an hour past sunset). We didn't see a blessed thing. Before leaving, I started just rotating the camera and taking shots of the empty sky to see if future enhancements to the photos might show me what my eyes missed. When I got home and started processing, I didn't see anything. Finally today, I went into LR to delete all those wastes of time and found the darned thing. Almost invisible - I knew we'd waited too long to look but didn't have a chance earlier. So, for the fun of it I'll start with the hyper-processed, super-cropped image which just barely shows the little fuzzball. It's on the far right of the image, forming a sort of triangle with the two stars: http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/K5__5861-extreme-closeup.jpg I couldn't even see those STARS with my eyes when we were out there. And here's the original shot - representing very well what I saw when looking out over the lake that evening: http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2013/K5__5861-original.jpg You can just barely almost sorta kinda see it in the full pulled-back 80mm shot. (and, yes, I see I have dust on my sensor. Bummer.) -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
