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Comet C/2012 K1 PanSTARRS
Copyrights: Adriano Valvasori

Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring up close on November 16th, 23:04ut. This comet has gone through many outburst ( Brighteing ) events in the last three weeks and it looks like its going to another one. Very interesting and something to watch if possible as it gets lower and towards sunset.

Comet 2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
Copyrights: Tony Angel

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on December 2nd, 09:05ut. A New comet (The Christmas/Three Kings Comet) becoming visible for us Northerners now (low Lat.) currently at magnitude 7.6-8 and could reach 4.6 mag. on around January 10th, 2015. Remember comets are unpredictable!.

Comet C/2012 X1 LINEAR between galaxies
Copyrights: José J. Chambó

Tech data:
Planewave 20" CDK f/4.5 reflector + FLI PL6303E camera (L:1×120 Bin1, RGB:1x60 Bin2)

Description:
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy imaged on December 13, 2014 from Siding Spring (Australia). Near the 6th magnitude now is visible at naked eye from Southern Sky, in this image shows a big greenish coma composed by carbon dioxid with 17' diameter, and a structured ionic tail toward northwest . Beneath, the lenticular galaxy NGC 2310.

Post link:
http://cometografia.es/2014q2-lovejoy-13dic2014/

Author:
José J. Chambó

Here is an image of Comet C/2014Q2 Lovejoy taken on December 15:

http://www.astrostudio.at/2_Bright%20Co ... 15_12C.jpg

best regards

Gerald

Comet Lovejoy - Dec 16th
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Comet 15P/Finlay - December 19th
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet Lovejoy - Dec 20th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
Full size: http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 2_20dp.jpg Comet Lovejoy - Dec 21st.
Copyrights: Damian Peach
http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c201 ... 2_21dp.jpg

Close encounter on Christmas Eve
Comet P15/Finlay on December 24th, 2014
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory On the evening of December 24th, at 16:40 UT the comet P15/Finlay was less than 6' from the planet Mars.
More info and hi-res image on website

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on Dec. 24th, 2014
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory More info and hi-res image on website

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on December 26 2014
https://flic.kr/p/qhZbfX
Copyright: Marion Haligowski

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on December 26 2014 by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was photographed among passing high clouds on December 26, 2014. This was a stack of 22 twenty-five and 3 Twenty second exposures (Canon T2i, Canon 100 mm f2 lens @ f/3.2, ISO 800). Tracking was done with an iOptron Sky Tracker and stacking done in Nebulosity.

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMe ... /i-NfPbpmM

2014-12-28 1425 UT
Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3
CDS-5D (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III)
A sequence of five exposures of 2 mins each at ISO2500 was used to create this image. Processed using Adobe After Effects, PixInsight and Lightroom.

Phil

Rolando Ligustri wrote: interesting meeting today between the comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy and the global cluster M79

link for high res, http://www.astrobin.com/full/143789/0/

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy in Conjunction with M79 on December 29th, 05:31ut. at its closest to M79 (NGC 1904) is a globular cluster in the Lepus constellation. (RGB-Filters)

Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) in conjunction with M79.
Author and copyright: Lorenzo Comolli ( http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/index2.htm )
Details: TEC 140 (f.l. 1011 mm), SBIG STL-11000, LRGB, total exp 55 min, 28 Dec 2014, h 21.16 UT

2014-12-29 1450 UT
Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3
CDS-5D (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III)
A sequence of five exposures of 2 mins each at ISO2500 was used to create this image, using Adobe Lightroom, After Effects and PixInsight.

Full image and a crop to show more detail around M79 and galaxy NGC1886.

http://philhart.smugmug.com/CometsAndMe ... /i-zRk9Pf2

So much fun, so many late nights, so much data!

Phil