Photographer

Donald Ensor

Location

Piha (west coast nr Auckland NZ

Date

Jan 18 2007; 20:53

Equipment

Casio EX-Z750 at wide angle, 1 minute exposure. 7 Mb original. The mount was "behind a twig on a dead tree" located along a track above a high cliff over the sea.

Description

I was taken by surprise by this comet; an excellent apparition with interesting tail structure.

Photographer

Andrew Drawneek

Location

Manawatu, New Zealand

Date

2007-01-17@22-00-34

Equipment

Canon 30D & 135mm f2 lens set to f3.2, 2 sec exposure. Normal tripod.

Description

Comet McNaught just before it set. Underexposed slightly and some custom levels applied in Photoshop to bring out the tail.

Photographer

Philippe Morel

Location

Avignon, France

Date

16h35 to 16h50 UT 2007/01/12

Equipment

Digital camera Canon 10D, telephoto lens focal 180mm stopped to focal ratio 5.6, addition of 8 images, 1/8 and 1/6 sec exposure on ISO100 equivalent. No equatorial mont : a simple photo tripod.

Description

The comet is near the horizon with many sorts of coloured clouds cause of the time between the first and the last picture. It was 7° elongated from the Sun. To realize this image I had a journey of 942km long from my home and return. The observation place was the Avignon TGV Railway Station in south of France.

Photographer

andre alexander

Location

mt o'mmanney, northam, western australia

Date

january16.07, 2100hrs

Equipment

Nikon D70 WITH Tamron 200mm lens and x2 converter on standard tripod. Exposure 1.5 sec, 200iso

Description

Comet McNaught approx' 30 mins after sunset.

Photographer

Jeff Peronto

Location

Madison, Wisconsin

Date

January 10th 2007 5:14pm

Equipment

Canon 30D with a Tamron 300mm with 1.4x.

Description

This is a stack of six exposures that was processed for more detail in the tail.

Photographer

Ed Johnson

Location

Los Angeles

Date

1/12/07 13:30 pst

Equipment

Homemade 8" f7 reflector with Canon Rebel DSLR (1400mm FL)

Description

Going through my shots of 1/12/07, I found this one with clouds - adds some perspective. It was fun watching the clouds passing the comet, too bad I didn't have a video camera running for this event. A time-lapse after sunset series (movie) from a local 6500' mountain (darker skies) would have been neat. I like this the best of nine posted at http://flickr.com/photos/edhiker/ (half size image supplied, 640x478)

Photographer

Michael Karrer

Location

St.Radegund/Austria

Date

2007-01-14, 11:58 UT

Equipment

7" Meade ED Refractor, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-1m, Astronomik 807nmIRpass filter

Description

Magnificant daytime appearance of McNaught just six degrees from the sun

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

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

Kari Tikkanen

Location

Niemiskylä,Kiuruvesi,Finland

Date

11th Jan 2007 at 14:19 UT

Equipment

Olympus C-765 Ultrazoom with tripod

Description

McNaught hung beautifully in evening sky above set sun. Exposure time 1/8 sec with 10xZoom needs quite a good tripod.