Re: [APML] Oldie---Comet Ikeya-Zhang from 2002

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

Roland, nice image, core of M31 sticks out nicely for such light polluted 
skies.



Stan Richard
Events in the Night Sky
www.nightskyevents.com





>From: Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
>To: astro-photo@seds.org
>Subject: [APML] Oldie---Comet Ikeya-Zhang from 2002
>Date: 16 Oct 2003 14:55:53 -0400
>
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>This has been sitting around for a while, and I have at last one more
>urban shot (a barely visible IZ flanked by Queens apartment
>buildings!) I'll try to put up as time allows.
>
>     http://www.astrofoto.org/gallery/solar/comets/c2002-c1.html
>
>I shot this from north of NYC on the night IZ made it's close approach
>to M31---M31 is visible just below the comet in this shot.  Obviously,
>there have been some *much* better shots of this conjunction, but this
>was a fun one for me; throw everything in the car, drive like mad to
>the meeting location, set up in the dark (because I was late and
>traffic was horrible), make a rough guess at polar alignment and shoot
>some short exposures hoping for the best.
>
>roland
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