Lovejoy, Pleiades and Hyades

[sharkmelley]

Friday night (16 Jan). Comet Lovejoy passes near the Pleiades and Hyades.  35mm lens on Canon 600D at f/4 on a tracking mount. 10 exposures of 5 minutes at ISO 800 stacked together.  Image then cropped.

Mark

[avtaram]

Just come inside from viewing Comet Lovejoy throuh my 15x70 bins, saw it as a greenish blob.

I panned downwards from the Pleiades until I picked it up.

The seeing in that direction is not very good but it's my first view of the the Comet, so very excited about it.

Avtar

[ghostdance]

Sweet image

Me too with the 15×70s, sky not as dark as previous sightings but still good to follow Lovejoy as it waves goodbye to the H&P...

[DRT]

That's a fantastic image - some of the threads from the observer side of the forum have been speculating that someone would capture this tonight and it is great to see the result.

Well done!

[Digz]

Great image. I had a go last night as well but am not holding out much hope for the results.

It shows up really well at 35mm as well.

[Chinapig]

Fab shot - beautiful result.

[Davey-T]

Lovely image, will try and get mine to look half decent.

Dave

[ejwwest]

Excellent shot!

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[Mick J]

Nice, good to see lots of lovejoy on the forum, thanks

[happy-kat]

Like that with so much to see

[wxsatuser]

The widefield gives a nice view.

[IVAN TAPIA]

I drove to my favorite dark site last night, it a 1 1/2 hour drive but totally worth it, as you could spot Lovejoy unaided if you already knew where it was, and I got to see the horse head and flame nebula that I hadn't seen since last year, great night.

Through the never

[ghostdance]

I drove to my favorite dark site last night, it a 1 1/2 hour drive but totally worth it, as you could spot Lovejoy unaided if you already knew where it was, and I got to see the horse head and flame nebula that I hadn't seen since last year, great night.

Through the never

You *saw* the HH etc? Wow, wasn't sure that was possible visually.Congrats!

[starman1969]

Very nicely done.

[IVAN TAPIA]

You *saw* the HH etc? Wow, wasn't sure that was possible visually.Congrats!

Thanks, what I have its a 12 inch Dob and I used a 28mm with a H-Beta filter and with a new moon and dark winter night where you can see Andromeda unaided , you can barely see the trace of it and averted vision also helps. [emoji292] [emoji276]

Through the never