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An amazing photo of Comet ISON:

http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_up ... d_id=90104

Launch of the Minotaur 1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10954517044/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5546/10954517044_8a54d562b0_z.jpg Launch of the Minotaur 1 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr The launch of the Minotaur 1 from NASA's Wallops Flight Faci...

Is or should Comet Lovejoy be naked eye visible at the moment? I believe that comet Lovejoy has just barely reached naked eye visibility. The morning that I photographed the comet, I was just able to make it out using averted vision. See: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=13&am...

Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) High Overhead on November 14 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10863180184/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2849/10863180184_cda1d082c8_z.jpg Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) High Overhead on November 14 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , ...

Upstaging Comet ISON (For the Moment ...) http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10784925044/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7308/10784925044_df7dfa3abf_z.jpg Upstaging Comet ISON (For the Moment ...) by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) ...

Partial Solar Eclipse of November 3 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10645199655/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2839/10645199655_f9d00b8a06_z.jpg Partial Solar Eclipse of November 3 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr The partial hybrid solar ecl...

First Image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on October 24 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10458107744/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3727/10458107744_ebf93851cb_z.jpg First Image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on October 24 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Fli...

The Last Sunflower Trail http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/10005515496/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7459/10005515496_3d0150b740_z.jpg The Last Sunflower Trail by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr 158 fifteen second exposures were used to make a 40 minute s...

An interesting link about how rare a "daytime comet" really is: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/weve-o ... ng-the-day

Watcher --

I found a photo taken with a 300 mm telephoto lens; it is barely visible, but it is there! http://spaceweather.com/gallery/indiv_u ... d_id=87088

Geckzilla -- I agree filtering out the shorter wavelengths would help as well as some stacking to improve the signal to noise ratio. I found an example of McNaught photographed using stacking and the green channel of the RGB. http://darkerview.com/wordpress/?p=6168 I wonder what the final image wou...

I am anxiously awaiting the perihelion of Comet ISON in the end on November. I have spent years photographing astronomical subjects at night and twilight but have no experience when they are so close to the sun. The possibility of ISON being a daytime object (magnitude estimates -5 to -12) exists. H...

LADEE Launch Stack http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/9764774424/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7416/9764774424_677ce0ee93_z.jpg LADEE Launch Stack by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr Four 20 second exposures were stacked using StarStaX of the LADEE launch o...

LADEE Launch from Fenwick Island http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/9688442021/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5533/9688442021_031c403f60_z.jpg LADEE Launch from Fenwick Island by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3693/9688440953_...

Following the Stars http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/9608357299/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2806/9608356755_b11f9fc91d_z.jpg Moonlight and Sunflowers by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr This photograph was made of 165 twenty-second exposures of the sout...

The Path of Jupiter from December 13 2012 to March 4 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/9415912041/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/9415912041_e35abdb08d_z.jpg The Path of Jupiter from December 13 2012 to March 4 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Fli...

14,860,800 Second Exposure! http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/9111318088/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5540/9111318088_9e54bd0f17_c.jpg 14,860,800 Second Exposure! by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr A pinhole solargraph was taken using a Red Bull can and ...

The Meteor and the Flower Moon http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8914830941/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7413/8914830941_10cd7d3309_z.jpg The Meteor and the Flower Moon by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr A bright meteor along with the full "flower&q...

Conjunction of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter on May 26 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8855883775/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski The conjunction of Mercury, Venus and Jupiter was photographed on May 26 using a Canon T2i and a Canon f/2.0 100 mm lens from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Th...

The Spear thru the Scorpion http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8855238726/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7451/8855238726_e07d9df05a_c.jpg The Spear thru the Scorpion by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr I was taking a two and a half hour star trail sequence o...

A Mid-Winter Night's Dream http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8702110446/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8271/8702110446_bb235ea3c6_c.jpg A Mid-Winter Night's Dream by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr A five minute exposure was taken of Orion rising above a b...

Spring is Here! http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8665746816/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8263/8665746816_1ea510c474_z.jpg Spring is Here! by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr Ten minutes of star trails were photographed over a flowering tree in Lancaster,...

There is Nothing Permanent Except Change http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8656070089/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8112/8656070089_753b185953_c.jpg There is Nothing Permanent Except Change by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr "There is Nothing Permane...

Comet C/2011 L4 (PanStarrs) on March 23 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8596465298/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8108/8596465298_dddab0936b.jpg Comet C/2011 L4 (PanStarrs) on March 23 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTAR...

Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS on March 19 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/8575743641/ Copyright: Marion Haligowski http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8525/8575743641_09b178a455.jpg Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS on March 19 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy , on Flickr Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) ...