Comet over Cambridge!

[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]

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[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Storming. I thought it had already set because I couldn't see it at 16:30, but perhaps the sky was still too bright. I didn't have much chance to sort things out, as I was zooming on my bike from one appointment to the next :-(