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Photographer

James Champagne

E-mail

jcham21@yahoo.com

Location

Ramah, Louisiana

Date

February 3, 2009

Equipment

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II Camera Lens at f/2.8 Focus with homemade Bahtinov Mask Piggybacked on Celestron C8 Fork Mount Canon XTi 7 X 240 sec. exposures ISO 800 Median stack on comet nucleus

Description

I measured Comet Lulin's ion tail to be 2 degrees long in my photo.
 

Photographer

James Maxwell

E-mail

jlmaxwell@starband.net

Location

Caldera Rim Observatory, NM

Date

Feb 4, 2009, 4:45-5:30 AM

Equipment

10" F/4 Schmidt Newtonian (Meade) with Baader Coma Corrector. 5" Guidescope with autoguider. Losmany G-11 Mount. Color Astro 400D (Canon Rebel)cooled DSLR. Photograph taken at -11C and at 8300 ft. elevation. Dark and Flat frames applied. Processed in Nebulosity and Photobrush.

Description

Comet Lulin with tail and anti-tail. A composite of 24 x 90 second exposures, totaling 36 minutes, tracking the comet.
 

Photographer

Gregg Ruppel

E-mail

ruppelgl@slu.edu

Location

Ellisville, MO

Date

2/4/2009 0530 local time

Equipment

ASA 10" astrograph, SBIG STL11000, Losmandy G11

Description

Comet Lulin had a major disconnect in its tail on the morning of 2/4/09. I just happened to be imaging it at the time.
 

Photographer

James Champagne

E-mail

jcham21@yahoo.com

Location

Ramah, Louisiana

Date

2-5-09

Equipment

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II Camera Lens at f/2.8 Focus with homemade Bahtinov Mask Piggybacked on Celestron C8 Fork Mount Canon XTi 15 X 240 sec. exposures ISO 800

Description

Comet Lulin is making its way to the double star Zubenelgenubi.
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

01/25/09 06:56ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, DMK21AF04 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astonomik LRGB filter set, Baarder Uv/Ir filter.

Description

Its apparent now that the rings have tilted slightly now approaching opposition, The cassini div. is observable and C,D rings also.
 

Photographer

Pat Pinnell

E-mail

rfish@yhti.net

Location

Moselle, Mo.

Date

February 01, 2009 05:30 a.m. c.s.t.

Equipment

Takahashi TSA102s, Losmandy G-11, Canon 40D

Description

comet C/2007 N3 Lulin
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

dougzubenel@gmail.com

Location

Linn Co., Kansas

Date

Jan. 31, 2009, 10:08 pm, CST

Equipment

Canon Rebel XTi with a 135mm Nikkor lens @ f/3.2; 277 second exposure at ISO 400.

Description

Although upstaged by Comet Lulin, Comet 144P/Kushida has been a nice evening target for small telescopes and cameras. Here it is slowly moving eastward among the stars of the Hyades Cluster in Taurus.
 

Photographer

Hrishikesh Kulkarni

E-mail

rishikesh_k@yahoo.com

Location

Pune, INDIA

Date

30-1-2009 7:27 PM IST

Equipment

Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg Camera & Tripod.

Description

I used Konica Minolta DiMAGE Xg Camera & Tripod to take photos on regular time interval & then used Photoshop 7.0 software to merge them.
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

01/25/09 08:53ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, DSI III Pro, Astronomik LRGB filter set, F/R F6.3

Description

Comet Lulin (C/2007 n3) Showing its antitail and tail structure and oval fuzzball appearance with its lime/green color was easily observed rising hrs before the sun.
 

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson555@hotmail.com

Location

Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Date

January 24, 2008 5:40pm cst

Equipment

Canon 40D with a 300mm lens

Description

As the Sun was setting it crossed paths perfectly with a high voltage tower. The meeting of the energies that keep us alive.
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