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Pan Starrs over Teide Mountain (16/03/2013)
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Copyright: Javier Falcón Quintana

Pan Starrs over Teide mountain(2) por Javier Falcón Quintana, en Flickr

Comet C/2011 L4 (Pan-STARRS) taken in Cluj Napoca, Romania, by Hudin Lucian, on 2013-03-17 17:00 UT, using a Skywatcher ED80 f/7.5 refractor, Canon 350D, NEQ6 via eqmod. 10x30sec exposures were shot then aligned/stacked with deepskystacker. Beside two main tails, another reddish tail is seen, altough pretty faint.

Panstarrs and the Eiffel Tower, March 17th
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Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne The same with a better compression : http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/ ... paris2.jpg

Panstarrs and the Eiffel Tower II, March 17th
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Copyright: Jean-Luc Dauvergne Lower compression : http://www.astrosurf.com/eternity/temp/ ... aris5L.jpg

Hello everbody,

Looks hopefully for the next days:
http://www.astrostudio.at/2_Bright%20Co ... _color.jpg

Gerald

Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS
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Copyright: Jimmy Mack

Comet Panstarrs as seen from Fort Lauderdale Florida

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Thanks for Looking
Charles
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Comet C/2011 L4 (Pan-STARRS) was barely visible with naked eye. I used an equatorial mount to snap 10 images of 30 seconds length with my old 350D and then I stacked them using DSS's Comet Stack. Beside the main splitted coma, another faint reddish tail can be seen.

Title: C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS
Copyright: Kike Diez y Delio Tolivia



Bigger image:
http://i.imgur.com/rUvSurh.jpg

The photograph data:
Optics: ED80
Camera: Canon 450D
Exposure time: 7 X 15"
Date: 17th March 2013 (20:00 UT)
Photograph place: Gijón (Asturias, Spain)

Hello from Moscow, Russia.
We have so cloudy weather, but 13th and 17th I can shoot PANSTARRS:
13th: 17th:
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http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/astrosas ... iginal.jpg
http://s018.radikal.ru/i527/1303/93/4c6be138bf5b.gif Canon EOS600D 75-300/5.6, 135/2.8

http://youtu.be/qXhGKsXEoZE
A short time lapse to complete the pictures from Paris above.

JL Dauvergne
http://astrophotography.fr/

Hi, I have been looking for comet PanSTARRS for some days, but it was very cloudy and rainy in my country. Today we had a beautiful sunset at last and I took this picture of PanSTARRS in Barcelona city with Norman Foster Telecommunications tower in the foreground.

Photo data
Camera CAnon EOS 5D MkIII at ISO 1600
Lens 500 mm f:4L IS
Exposure: 1 sec at f:4
Date: 18th March 2013
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Bigger picture here: http://www.alamany.com/img/img_externes ... 8_025a.jpg

Oriol Alamany
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Panstarrs comet 18th March
newton 275 mm F/3.3
eos 5DMII 400 ISO 10 min of exposure
credits image Philippe TOSI (France-Nîmes)
best regards.

Here is a video of PanSTARRS Comet setting as seen from my home at Ardea (Rome area, Italy): https://vimeo.com/62082971

The video has been realized on 16th March 2013, one of few days when comet has been visible from Italy due to bad wheather conditions.

The video has been realized composing 107 pictures with Virtualdub software: all pictures were 6 second exposures made with a Canon EOS 30D DSLR equipped with a Canon EF 17-85 USM lens.
The atmospheric extintion made the comet disappear before it reached the trees and clouds also played a big role in dimming its brightness.


Thanks a lot
Roberto Volsa

Comet Pan-STARRS with 3 tails!

From the analysis of 100 averaged imaged, I've found 3 tails: ion (1), sodium? (2) and dust (3). Even if very faint, the ion tail seems to be there, visible only in the BLUE channel. Instead the second tail is completely absent in blue and thus cannot be ion. A hypotesis is the sodium tail. The third tail in the wide dust one. I hope to have the opportunity to get other images in the next days, for confirming the very faint blue tail. And I hope someone will make a spectrum of that secondary tail to understand the composition.

I submit a 3 channel split showing the tails, and also an RGB composition. Tech details: TEC 140 apo refractor, Canon 60D, average of 100 exposures of 4 s each, 800-3200 ISO. Imaged at about 18.30 UT, 15 March 2013

Author and copyright: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm )


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Panstarrs with Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) from Finland. Taken 17th of March 2013, location Uusikaupunki (SW corner of Finland).

Copyright: Janne Kari (jannemkari [a] hotmail.com)

I prepped to photograph the Panstarrs from the sea shore, and after I got the comet into visual range the most amazing Aurora I've seen this far south started. This gave a nice background to the comet.

Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S18-135STM, all shots around 10 sec shutter in bulb mode, ISO400.

Comet PANSTARRS and waxing moon
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Copyright 2013: David Paul Green, Los Angeles, CA
Taken in Castaic, CA, March 13, 2013. Canon EOS 5D MkIII; 70-200mm f/2.8L. 13 seconds, f/8.

Panstarrs comet in the sky of "Pointe Saint Mathieu", Brittany, France. Panorama: Canon EOS 6D, tamron 70 200 @ f2.8, 2000 iso, 3.2s
Alexandre Croisier

Comet PANSTARRS - A Desert View PAN-orama

I arrived back home from my Utah road-trip today as soon as the sun was setting and rushed out to Gates Pass to photograph Comet Panstarrs. I was shocked at how many people were camped out for this event...I couldn't even park at the top look out! After trying to find a spot to park for 20 minutes I just drove west and parked at the first pullout near Kenny road. I then rushed out to the first interesting cactus I could find and set up both cameras.

Here is a 3-photo horizontal panoramic taken near gates pass in Tucson, Arizona showing a couple objects. You can see the crescent moon at the top, 3 bright stars from Pisces underneath it, and Comet PANSTARRS near the crooked cactus. This is also a frame from a time-lapse.








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Jets stemming from the surface of Panstarrs comet (march 18th 2013 at 18h40 UT)
15° rotational gradiant with Iris software
image by Philippe TOSI (France-Nîmes)
Regards

Panstarrs on Catalonia
Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado

Comet Catch!



Chris Gillen

From Kulu Lodge, Maui, overlooking Lanai

http://www.flickr.com/photos/munnecket/8553298941

PenSTARRS

Randall Kayfes

Comet Panstarrs take with Pentax *ist-DS and telephoto lens Pentax 300/4.5



Lionel