McNAUGHT in Buenos Aires

del Buen Ayre Highway, January the 20th 2007

 

 

 

 

Photograph showed in 13 air channel in the programe "El Tiempo del Tiempo"

 


 

DATA

TYPE: Comet

VISUAL MAGNITUD: 0.7 (at the moment of the photograph)

DISTANCE: 0.8750 au

 

DESCRIPTION

Photograph taken from the same stop of the previous one. Some part of the bridge is visible. 

My two nephews joined us Jerónimo and Felipe Desantadina (7 and 11 respectivelly). The team was completed with my wife Silvina and my daugther Agustina (3). Jerónimo spoted the comet at naked eye, while i was trying to find it through binoculars

 

IMAGE INFORMATION

SKY CONDITIONS: not very clean. Needed 30 sec exposures to bring up the tail

CÁMARA: Canon 20 Da. With tripod this time

FILTERS: None

EXPOSURES: 10 photographs of 30 secs each.

PROCESADO: Photoshop CS. Star & Comet trail corrected with PS