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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade Binos 10x50
Imaging cameras: Canon A610
Mounts: Fixed tripod
Software: PixInsight, Jasc Software Paintshop Pro
Resolution: 1024x819
Dates: Jan. 13, 2007
Locations: Vallés - Valencia (Spain)
Integration: 0.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 23.46 days
Avg. Moon phase: 36.18%
This comet discovered by Robert McNaught from Australia at 2006, August 7 has been the brightest (mag. -5,5) since the Ikeya-Seki at 1965 (mag. -10). But your proximity to sun did specially hard to see, mainly from the North Hemisphere, where it could be seen only during dusk along a few minutes.
I took this photo at 2007 middle January, in the few days on wich it could be seen from Spain. Furthermore of a West horizont free of obstacles and perfectly clean, I had needed a better equipment, but this is that I had: a compact camera and a 10x50 binoculars on a tripod. Centering and focussing problems did that I took only a image too late, with the comet to less of 1 degree above horizont.
Four years late I've retrieved the JPEG image and I've process it as far as possible to try improve it some.
Also into the Blog C O M E T O G R A F I A (in Spanish)
