Photographer

Greg Tarczynski

Location

Oakland, CA

Date

1/13/07, 5:36 pm PST

Equipment

Canon EOS 1D Mark II with 400mm f/2.8 lens and a 1.4 teleconverter.

Description

Comet McNaught as seen over San Francisco Bay Saturday evening. In the foreground is visible the is the island structure of the historic aircraft carrier USS Hornet docked in Alameda, California. This shot was taken moments before the comet was totally obscured by the high clouds on the horizon.

Photographer

Simon Chung

Location

Vancouver International Airport (YVR)

Date

Jan.11, 2007 @ 5:09PM

Equipment

Nikon D50 DSLR with a 70-200 telephoto lens @ 200mm focal length.

Description

Comet McNaught and a small plane exchange glances under a crisp winter twilight sky.

Photographer

Bruce Kelley

Location

Kirkland, Washington

Date

1/11/07, 5:22 pm PST

Equipment

Nikon D70 with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens zoomed in to 200 and stopped down to f/18 with a 1 second exposure. I did some contrast enhancement in Photoshop and cropped it for better composition

Description

Comet McNaught appears to head for the top of Seattle’s Space Needle in this photo taken on January 11, 2007 from Kirkland, Washington.

Photographer

Dave Schmahl

Location

Mt. Palomar, CA

Date

1/13/07

Equipment

Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 300mm, f5.6, 1/500s, 100 ISO

Description

Two airplanes were passing as this shot was taken.

Photographer

Alan Creutz

Location

Rancho Santa Fe, CA

Date

Jan 14, 01h16m18s UT

Equipment

Nikon D70, with Tamron (optical) 200-500mm, zoomed to 500mm (effectively 750mm). 1/200th second at f6.3

Description

Comet McNaught, low in the Southwest. Photo was taken with Nikon Raw, enhanced to bring out the comet, and converted to Grayscale

Photographer

Tom Mathewson

Location

East bench of Layton, Utah

Date

13 January 2007, 6:37 pm MST

Equipment

Nikon D70S camera, Sigma 18-200mm lens, on tripod

Description

Taken next to "Layton Castle," Layton, Utah, on east bench. Settings:ISO 200, 1/25 second at f/16 aperture. Balanced in Photoshop (levels, curves, noise, dust spots). Cropped to 1/3 size (1/9 original area). First clear night in nearly a week, thus no sighting last few nights. Barely visible. Probably last sighting in North America, except for some lucky souls along the west coast.

Photographer

Steve Williams

Location

Near the base of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, NM

Date

1/13/07 at 5:14 p.m. MST

Equipment

Nikon D80 on tripod, ISO 100, 1/320 sec, f/5.6, 18-200 mm Nikkor VR DX lens at 200 mm

Description

Comet Mcnaught between clouds at sunset on January 13, 2007 from base of tram in Sandia foothills--Albququerque New Mexico. A few minutes after locating the comet in binoculars, it was visible to the naked eye.

Photographer

Amir Hossein Abolfath

Location

Tehran, Iran

Date

01/14/2007 16:00

Equipment

11 cm William optics Apo Canon Eos 30D

Description

I've taken this photo at 4 pm behind clouds! Stack of 4 images to reduce noise.

Photographer

Lynn M. Laux

Location

Doylestown, Ohio

Date

01/10/2007 6:00 PM EST

Equipment

Canon 350D, Sigma 17 -200 mm lens f/5.6 @ 200 mm Manfrotto-Bogen Mount and Tripod

Description

We drove to a hill a couple of miles North of town to view the comet. Right after Venus popped out of the evening twilight, I spotted the comet. We were able to view the comet as it set for 30 minutes. The bright tail sparkled in the colors of the sunset.

Photographer

Juan Carlos Rosso

Location

Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain

Date

2007/01/12, 17:28UT

Equipment

Nikon Coolpix 5400. Brightness adjustment with the Gimp.

Description

Short movie of comet McNaught setting over Las Rozas de Madrid.