Comet Pan-STARRS and its March+ 2013 appearance

yea, works now, good shot aswell.
I saw it on Friday evening through the clibs 25x100 binoculars and it was very nice, good tail and spherical coma.
Only thing was I still could not see it with the naked eye, although there was a very slight haze,

Hi all, I got unexpected clear skies this evening, Panstarrs is quite easy to find low in the northwest, it's getting a little fainter and through binoculars I could make out both a lengthening and widening tail.

I got a shot which definitely shows a faint tail off shooting in the 9 o'clock position which did'nt seem there a few nights ago..

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Keith..

Beautiful shot, Keith! What bright star is near it now? And what was your location?

Aubrey.

Excellent image Keith!
Well done.
What exposure and focal length did you use?

Aubrey, I'm here in east cavan, I simply took this shot from my back garden It is now getting close to M31, the Andromeda galaxy, last night it was only about 6 degrees away to the south of it.

Michael, sorry I didn't give any details, I took a 2 minute exposure at ISO100, F8.0 with a 300mm lens on a Canon 40D using my astrotrac.

Keith.

Very cool image , not a naked eye object from Bray , would love to see it from a dark place

Deirdre Kelleghan