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VISUAL
REPORTS: "On Feb. 20th, Comet Lulin was a
spectacular sight from my dark sky haunt at Sunset Crater National
Monument," reports Jeremy Perez in Arizona.
"It was readily
visible to the naked eye as a soft spot in Virgo, and was
breathtaking through binoculars and telescope."
"The
comet is just barely naked eye in a dark sky," says Ginger
Mayfield of Divide, Colorado, on Feb. 20th. "Seems
a little brighter than 24 hours ago. It was 12 degrees F outside
when I took this
image."
"Last
night away from city lights, comet Lulin was just visible to the
naked eye," reports Todd Hargis from Horseshoe
Bay Texas, on Feb. 21st. "Lulin was fairly bright in my cameras
viewfinder posing for a
photo."
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Photographer,
Location |
Images |
Comments |
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Conrad Pope,
Kelly, NC
Feb. 21, 2009 |
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Image of Comet Lulin on February 21 around 1:30am EST. Photographed with a Takahashi FSQ using a Canon 5D MarkII at ISO 3200, three minute exposure, combination of four images.
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Jack Newton,
Portal AZ
Feb. 20, 2009 |
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Comet Lulin
has brightened considerably and is a very easy naked eye
object. I imaged lulin with my Meade 14" HyperStar f2 and
combined four,4min, exposures. image taken from The Arizona
Sky Village Portal. |
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Mike Broussard,
Maurice, Louisiana, USA
Feb. 20, 2009 |
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#2, #3,
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I was just able to see Comet Lulin with averted vision from my light polluted location early in the morning on Feb 20th, 2009. I switched to a wide-field setup with a fast lens to photograph it. That worked really well.
Details: 22x120 sec @ ISO 1600. Canon 200mm F/2.8 lens, Hutech Canon XS, IDAS-LPS, Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD.
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Paolo Candy,
Cimini Astronomical Observatory, Italy
Feb. 20, 2009 |
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I
think this comet is like a "Sword", a great show in the
sky: "The Sword Comet". Comet LULIN
C/2007 N3 & NGC 4546 Baker-Schmidt Zen 10" F/3 Sbig STL
6303E LRGB 3;1;1;2 min 20 Feb 2009 00:30 LT
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Gary Honis,
Conyngham, PA
Feb. 17, 2009 |
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During last
quarter Moon, I imaged the comet over a five hour period
on 2/17. 138 one-minute exposures were stacked using DeepSky
Stacker for this image. A time lapse movie spanning 4.5
hours using 200 one-minute exposures were used for a video
that has been posted
on Youtube. |
more
images:
from
Tony Farkas of Okinawa, Japan; from
Jens Hackmann of Weikersheim, southern Germany; from
Mike Borman of Evansville, Indiana; from
Tom Gwilym of Renton, WA; from
Jim Fakatselis of Peppermill Skies Observatory Huntington,
New York; from
Joe Fisher of Ely, Minnesota; from
Martin Campbell of Dungannon, N.Ireland; from
John Drummond of Gisborne, New Zealand; from
Rolando Ligustri using a remotely-controlled telescope in
New Mexico; from
Papp Andras of Rothenwörth, Germany |
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