Congrats to Nick Howes!

[madjohn]

Hi Folks,

Just to let you know that Nick Howes has got his picture of comet Hartley on the front page of Spaceweather.com.

Congratulations Nick on a great image!

John

See :-http://www.spaceweather.com/ October 18th

[LukeSkywatcher]

His image was also published online on the French National Geographic.

Congrats once again Nick.

[astroimpulse]

That's a mega impressive achievement!

Since being a child NG have always been synonymous with the best natural photography out there.

[Peter Drew]

Congratulations Nick, well deserved!

[MikeWilson]

Congratulations Nick.

I'm kicking myself now that I missed your talk at Salisbury Star Party!

[Starblazer]

SkyandTelescope.com - Homepage Observing - Comet Hartley 2 At Its Best

More Nick H

Cracking mate!!

[NickH]

Thank you everyone

Even NASA themselves seem to like it, and it was on BBC News/weather twice last week

NASA Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Active Comet Hartley 2 - NASA Science

[Starblazer]

Oh and

Emily Lakdawalla (Science and Technology Coordinator

Correspondent, Planetary.org)

Just tweeted a link to the skyandtelescope piccies

[MikeWilson]

I can really appreciate that image - since I spent five (yes, five!) hours last night trying to capture this comet.

I started at Capella and worked my way towards it, taking images and checking the field using astrometry as I went. I covered images all over the area and didn't see a jot.

Well done

[NickH]

Mike

www.calsky.com

This night's comets

Set for 1 hour in 1 minute increments

RA & DEC's galore

[MikeWilson]

Mike

www.calsky.com

This night's comets

Set for 1 hour in 1 minute increments

RA & DEC's galore

Brill! The one I used was set in day (ie 24 hour increments). Thanks for this

[Keiran]

Big congratulations Nick

[Shibby]

Ah what you need is EQMOD with comet data added to Stellarium. I slewed straight to it

[Keiran]

Mike

www.calsky.com

This night's comets

Set for 1 hour in 1 minute increments

RA & DEC's galore

Thanks for the link, thats great

[NickH]

Ah what you need is EQMOD with comet data added to Stellarium. I slewed straight to it

Yes, until the comet orbit changes a tad..the accuracy I need is within 5 arcmins as that's the FOV of Faulkes, so using Calsky or the MPEC coordinates usually does the trick