Re: [APML] Comet Machholz with IC1805/48 and Double cluster mosaic

[Ray Butler <ray.butler@nuigalway.ie>]

Stunning composition John! I think you blended them very well - I had to 
look hard to distinguish where the two original frames would have been. 
I love what you're doing with that medium format + short focal lenght 
apo combination.

Dom - comet Ikeya-Seki was visible in 1965. (6 years before I was 
born...so my first comet was Halley at age 14).

I've only seen comet Macholz once! We have a huge high pressure system 
sitting over and west of Ireland - the trouble is, it is the really 
cloudy type of high, which happens rarely...

Ray "anyway 'observing' my 3-month-old daughter's antics is more fun" Butler


Dominic Cantin wrote:

> Excellent pictures John !!!
>  
> I apreciated to see your other pictures here 
> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblog/astroblog.asp?UserID=67
>  
> The comet Ikeya-Seki was surely a treat to observe ... what was the year 
> of the visit of this comet ? 
> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblog/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=240
>  
> Beautiful !!!
>  
> Clear skies !
>  
> Dom :)
>  
> Dominic Cantin
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> John Laborde <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone,
> 
>     I finally composited a shot of Comet Machholz taken on 1/30/05 as it
>     passed near IC1805/48 with a mosaic I did a few months earlier if same
>     IC. The major difficulty was getting a seamless blend from two
>     different
>     films and exposure times. The earlier mosaic was on E200 and 90 min.
>     and
>     did not incluse most of the area where the comet was. The comet shotr
>     was a 30min exposure on Provia 400. All images ttaken with a Pentax 6x7
>     and FSQ-106.
> 
>     This mosaic is only 1/10th ofthe full resolution. See link below
>     http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=394&UserID=67
> 
>     A higher resolution section of above is here:
>     http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=395&UserID=67
> 
>     John Laborde
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