[Chaos-l] Nice Animated GIF Of Comet Lulin

[Breivogel, Christopher]

I vote for satellites.  They are probably geostationary and the telescope and stars as slewing past them.

 

Chris Breivogel

 

                          

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From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Don Moffitt
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:10 PM
To: 'Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society'
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Nice Animated GIF Of Comet Lulin

 

One more question-what are the objects that are streaking (slowly) across the sky? There should be a two minute lapse between photographs; some of the streaks are in at least 7 frames, for a 14 minute traverse.

 

 

 

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From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Terry Crook
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:22 PM
To: robertnielsen at nc.rr.com; Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society
Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Nice Animated GIF Of Comet Lulin

 

Remarkable pix, thanks! I would have gone out to look for it locally (with binocs) but have been fighting a nasty sinus infection lately!
Two questions (for anyone): 
        What is the star in the upper right center?
        If the Sun is to the right (w/ tail extending behind comet), what is the variable cloud ahead at about 1'oclock?

At 12:02 PM 2/24/2009, Robert Nielsen wrote:

Everyone,

This has been making the rounds on some astronomy forums: http://www.ccdargo.com/lulin.gif

It's a really nice animated GIF of Comet Lulin, taken last Saturday night where 61 images cover about 2 hours of the comet's movement against the star background.

Credit: Tom Carrico

Robert

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