I tried again tonight to get a descent image of this comet and lukily the skys cleared for a short time. The comet was supposed to be 10 degrees up from the horizon and as the sun set I scanned the sky with my binoculars with no luck. This comet is a bit dissapointing for me as I remember Hale-bopp in 1995 lighting up the sky even with the naked eye and I was expecting a repeat.
Finally after nearly an hour of searching the sky comet Panstarrs appeared as if by magic from behind a whispy cloud. It was sitting in a clear area of the sky with some thin cloud approachig.
I had already focused my 500mm skywatcher refractor on the moon using live view on my 40d so I rattled off as many shots as possible with different ISO settings from 100 to 1600.
The final comet shot was 2.5 seconds at ISO 400. F7
This lovely waxing Moon 10% lit was to far away from the comet to be in the same shot so here it is on its own. The same scope and afocal camera was used set at ISO 100 at 1/80th of a second F7.
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