Comet Pan-STARRS from Inner Mongolia, China

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KKK26 wrote:wow...beautiful .. one of the best Pan-STARRS images.
maguro77 wrote:
KKK26 wrote:.....one of the best Pan-STARRS images.
I second that. I had scoured the Internet for panstarrs images whilst tracking it's progress in the hope i could recognise it. IMHO, Jiahao, your photos are the best out there.
Thanks KK and Maguro. I'm sure as the moon moves out of the way next week there will be plenty of jaw-dropping shots from the northerners coming out.
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Gary wrote:@JiaHao Did you try to capture the comet and the Moon together in the same photo?
Hi Gary, unfortunately I was clouded out on that specific day, just not meant to be...

I had been anticipating to view the conjunction for quite a long time, since my previous sighting of such event dates back to 1997's Hale-Bopp show and 16 years of time makes me very nostalgic :mrgreen:
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Close conjunction of comet Pan-STARRS and Andromeda Galaxy(M31). Also captured in the image is M33 on the left below the watermark, and a small meteor right beside the comet. Lucky!

The red lights below are from the electricity wind farm.

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Nice shot! So you managed to take that long-planned image of M31 and Comet Panstarrs together.


(PS: I was wondering where the two objects are in the image. It's right cropped in the above. Can see the full width of the image here:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8612 ... 53f9_o.jpg)
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Wonderful shot JiaHao! Another fruitful comet-shooting trip!
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starfinder wrote:Nice shot! So you managed to take that long-planned image of M31 and Comet Panstarrs together.


(PS: I was wondering where the two objects are in the image. It's right cropped in the above. Can see the full width of the image here:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8612 ... 53f9_o.jpg)
Yes man finally I got a clear night to catch the conjunction before returning to SG. They looked so beautiful together through binos.
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Gary wrote:Wonderful shot JiaHao! Another fruitful comet-shooting trip!
Thanks Gary. Though not perfect, it was a enjoyable 2 weeks with the little comet. :mrgreen:
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Awesome shot Jiahao. Incredible you spent so much time looking for the perfect shot! It paid off...:)
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