P46/Wirtanen passing Capella

[Scooot]

Taken on the evening of Christmas Eve during a brief hour or so of clear skies. The comet was about 44° above a very bright Moon being 93% illuminated, although this had the advantage of drowning out the red light pollution.  I halved the exposure of the subs because of this and a bright Capella taking them at F4 instead of F2.8. There’s about 50 minutes worth of 30 second subs at ISO400 at 135mm on the Star Adventurer. Thanks for looking  

[Davey-T]

Nicely caught Richard, I took a few of it on the same night but not had time to sort them yet.

Dave 

[Scooot]

Thanks Dave, look forward to seeing them ??

[tooth_dr]

A worthy result Richard. You done well catching it. No sign of Santa in your subs?! ? 

[Scooot]

16 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

A worthy result Richard. You done well catching it. No sign of Santa in your subs?! ? 

No, he must’ve been busy elsewhere ?

Edit, I just thought, that’s one of his reindeer’s, Comet.

[orion25]

Excellent work, RIchard!  And to think, I wasn't expecting too much from this comet, but it pleasantly surprised me  

[Guest]

That's really classy!

[Scooot]

3 minutes ago, orion25 said:

Excellent work, RIchard!  And to think, I wasn't expecting too much from this comet, but it pleasantly surprised me  

Thanks Reggie, yes I’ve enjoyed this one. Hadn’t imaged them before.  

[Scooot]

2 minutes ago, Sland said:

That's really classy!

Thank you, nice of you to say so.

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Scooot said:

Thank you, nice of you to say so.

 

Been trying to see it with my 10x50s but the weather has been abysmal. Thanks for the view.

[Scooot]

3 minutes ago, Sland said:

Been trying to see it with my 10x50s but the weather has been abysmal. Thanks for the view.

I haven’t had many opportunities visually either. I was only able to see it with my 10” on the 12th, but I got a better view of it near M45 with my 8x42s in the early hours of the 16th.

[bob-c]

Nice cap Richard.

Bob.

[Scooot]

1 minute ago, bob-c said:

Nice cap Richard.

Bob.

Thank you Bob. 

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured.

[Scooot]

Thank you Pete