Astroblog: My First Image of C/2009 G1

Thursday, April 23, 2009

My First Image of C/2009 G1

I have a account with Global-Rent-A-Scope, after over a week of frustration, where the sky was either clouded out, or I woke up far too late to do any imaging, I finally got an image of comet 2009 G1 Ruan.

This is a very special comet, as it is the few comets found by the stereohunter community that can be seen by Earth-bound telescopes (mostly the are Kreutz sungrazers). I can remember the excitement after Ruan found the faint object moving in the stereo images, as the stereohunters eliminated candiate after candiate until it was clear this was a new object.

If you don't have a telescope, you can enjoy C2009 G1 Ruan in Celestia or Stellarium.

Shortly after the image above was taken, the clud came over the Moorook telescope site (typical). Image is a 2 minute exposure using scope G-15.

Labels: astrophotography, comets

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:43 am

Comments:

Wow this is excellent. Sounds like fun to rent that telescope. Anna :)

# posted by

myonlyphoto : 12:24 am

Well done Ian, looks real good.
"...Hey Dad...Darrell dug a hole...." something to be proud of..Regards CometAl

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:49 pm

Anna it is fun to rent a telescope (could possibly be an expensive addiction though :-)

Comet Al: Not bad for my first real telescopic comet shot. I still have a lot to learn alot processing the images though.

Of course, with the current weather, it may be a LOOONNNGG time before I get the chance to learn. I might see if I can pick up 2008 T2 Cardinal in STEREO A while I wait.

# posted by

Ian Musgrave : 9:06 pm