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Comet with naked eye coma PANSTARRS

17.3.2013 at 20.30 - Lieto (II)
Matti Helin, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Empä also remembered to put this before ... The head was dimly visible to the naked eye just before the comet was set behind the forest.

Images: 3 pcs

Binocular comet PANSTARRS

30.3.2013 at 21.30 - Lapinlahti (III)
Pekka Räihä

I photographed the northern lights at night and after looking at those pictures I noticed in the uvi involved, first a tail star and later another tail star. The direction of the description was to the north and the tail stars were visible in the image at a sufficiently magnified level, roughly northwest well above the horizon. I remember that then a tail star had to be visible in the sky but why this time there were two. This was left to dig into which stars were visible. The camera was a Canon EOS 5 Mark II and the optics were 24-70 / 2.8 and possibly 70-200 / 2.8. If necessary, I can put so...

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

8.5.2014 at 00.47 - Valtimo (I)
Veli-Pekka Häkkinen

Once again on top of the ban, i.e. panstarrs description.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

28.4.2014 at 00.35 - Järvenpää (II)
Toni Veikkolainen, Keski-Uudenmaan Altair

My traditional observation routine with shipments of tracking equipment was repeated for the last time this spring. I decided to start filming a comet south of Otava's tail, from which several observations had already been made in the Sky Watch. The object appears dimly green in the image and its tail pointed almost straight south. Confusingly, a single star appeared from the center of Koma to the side. Not this shocking comet, but a fiery one. Since the brightness of the sky didn’t bother me significantly yet, I later decided to still try to capture a few more bright DS surfaces.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

3.5.2014 at 01.30 - Akaa
Markku Ruonala

Late night trend and shot type shooting without surveillance and camera optics, no tools for visual observation.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

3.5.2014 at 01.00 - Ilmajoki (II)
Mauri Korpi, Lakeuden Ursa

The comet shots continue, despite the bright nights. I tried to get a better picture of the comet alone now. I don't want to get much out of it. Just as there would be another much weaker and narrower tail in that 7 o'clock direction, you might be imagining just that.

Images: 4 pcs • Comments: 5 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

3.5.2014 at 01.26 - Valtimo (II)
Veli-Pekka Häkkinen

Outdoor this time 55mm glass. Now equipment for naphthalene for the summer (when promising the next 10 nights in the clouds), will be continued in August-September.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

2.5.2014 at 01.30 - Ilmajoki (II)
Mauri Korpi, Lakeuden Ursa

Such came from my own rap on the subject of the encounter of a comet and a galaxy. That M51 galaxy is moderately visible, but at the same time the comet remained weak. The second image is more severely delimited by its comet.

Images: 2 pcs

M51 Pyörregalaksi, C/2012 K1 PanStarrs

2.5.2014 at 01.00 - Jyväskylä (IV)
Jesse Kyytinen, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Comet PanStarrs passed the Whirlwind Galaxy on May Day. There were some minor problems with the filming...

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

2.5.2014 at 01.00 - Jyväskylä (II)
Jesse Kyytinen, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Now that the comet was closest to the M51, I decided that now there has to be that tile. I spent an exceptional amount of time aiming at the focus and focusing, and everything was perfectly in place. Therefore, quality light from a comet. It came, but after three exposures, the camera stopped working. What an awesome moment to run out of battery, I had to take the battery to charge for a while and at the same time had to take the camera off the tripod and the pole sight should be renewed. After a while of charging, I did everything new again, but nothing seemed to hit at all and I had to worry...

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

2.5.2014 at 01.20 - Uurainen (II)
Erkki Rauhala

New business from this location. The tracking of the stand also agreed to work. The sky is already quite light, but still the comet came into the picture well. Due to the north wind, the night was surprisingly cold. Ice fishing overalls were no exaggeration at all.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

2.5.2014 at 01.30 - Kauhava (III)
Jari Kankaanpää, Lakeuden Ursa

"May Day fan and serpentine." C 2012 K1 and background galaxies M 51 still grabbed from the lightening sky.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

1.5.2014 at 00.15 - Jyväskylä (II)
Jesse Kyytinen, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Treatment of the three Ks for ascites: C omet C / 2012 K1 PanStarrs K alaksi M51 (Swirl galaxy) K ylmä darker season reminiscent of frost The northern sky in particular was clearly light, but fortunately (in terms of darkness) the duo was close to zenith. The downside was that it was difficult to align the tripod with Otava, who had left the familiar place.

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

2.5.2014 at 00.50 - Valtimo (I)
Veli-Pekka Häkkinen

The last one is exported.

Comments: 2 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

30.4.2014 at 01.15 - Uurainen (II)
Erkki Rauhala

Out of curiosity, I tried to see if there was still enough darkness at this altitude to describe the comet. The intention was to use a longer focal length, but there was something wrong with the pedestal systems and it refused to cooperate. Therefore, I introduced 200 mm / 1.8 optics and got some kind of trace even without tracking. The technical quality of the picture is quite terrible, but it is a bad picture. The wider image area also fit the galaxy M51 and Otava's star Alcaid.

Comments: 1 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

27.4.2014 at 01.50 - Ilmajoki (III)
Mauri Korpi, Lakeuden Ursa

The comet currently best described. Illuminated summer nights only matter.

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 4 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

27.4.2014 at 00.50 - Kangasala, Sahalahti (II)
Jorma Mäntylä

Comet Panstarrs is now quite close to the Alkaid star at the bucket terminal in Ottawa. I photographed the subject with 135 and 200 mm teles. Even in Pirkanmaa, the brightness of the background sky is already starting to affect, as can be seen from the second picture taken an hour later. Annoyance. this would otherwise be a handsome comet. Goes on May Day less than two degrees past the large M51 galaxy. Edit: Added a better color image when I got extra power for image processing on my computer.

Images: 3 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

24.4.2014 at 02.19 - Asikkala (III)
Samuli Ikäheimo, Lahden Ursa

The last observation nights of the spring are going on and this time comet C / 2012 K1 Panstarrs grabbed me from the edges of Päijänne National Park. The comet, which is easily located near Otava but is still a little difficult to see with binoculars, has continued to brighten. Unfortunately, the background sky also brightens as summer approaches, making it difficult to study this play, but still at least some data was stored on the camera cell. In addition to the traditional stacked image, I also featured an animation / timelapse of eight images. Although it does not cover more than eight min...

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

24.4.2014 at 01.30 - Kangasala (II)
Jorma Mäntylä

Comet C / 2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) stood out quite easily between the Otava bucket and the Bear Guard. The tail came out moderately, especially in the negative image. Images are in black and white.

Images: 3 pcs

Telescopic comet PANSTARRS

24.4.2014 at 00.50 - Valtimo (II)
Veli-Pekka Häkkinen

This time stacked according to the comet.

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