Comet over Cambridge!
Jan. 10th, 2007 05:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemack
This is comet 2006/P1 McNaught; it's appeared rather unexpectedly, and you can see it very close to the western horizon around sunset, about ten degrees to the right of Venus, until about Sunday - I went to the top of Castle Hill at 5:10 for this shot (after excitingly summoning the whole company!), and it had nearly set.
[ISO1000, 10 seconds, 200/5.6, cropped and brightened in gimp for top one, unaltered below]
Cool!
Date: 2007-01-10 08:01 pm (UTC)I would hope it's visible from here, since we're at similar latitudes.
(once more it appears the damn Southern Hemisphere gets the better show, though.)