[Chaos-l] Comet C/2012 K5 (LINEAR)

[Tony Garcia]

Thanks so much for pointing out the comet at medoc!

I took a single quick shot of it, just threw the camera on, best guess
focus, unguided, roughly star aligned etc..

Here it is attached, it is not great, but it is interesting after what you
said about how fast it is moving.  This was roughly a four minute exposure
and like I said, rough, so you can see some star trailing but the comet was
definitely booking in comparison!



On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>wrote:

> For those of you who went to Medoc this weekend and saw Comet K5 LINEAR,
> here is an interesting web page:
>
> http://users.FoxValley.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
>
> Let it load completely, and then look at the animated GIF near the bottom
> of the page.   It shows a compilation of 33 60-second photos taken 5
> minutes apart ... and the comet is literally STREAKING across the image.
> It's amazing how quickly it was moving that day (I think it was Dec 31st)!
>   So next time you look for it, I doubt it will be in the same part of the
> sky, where it was easy to find ...
>
> Robert
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