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Comet McNaught 18th Feb - Landscape
Comet McNaught with the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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Comet McNaught 18th Feb - Portrait
Comet McNaught with the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud.
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Comet McNaught 20th Jan - Big!
Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught from a darker location that Perth City, the Ferguson Valley, overlooking the city of Bunbury, Western Australia.
Amazingly a huge fan of the comets tail is visible in this exposure. Trailing stars are visible because of the longer exposure and no tracking platform being used.
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Comet McNaught 19th Jan - Arcing over Perth
Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught with an enormous tail visible over the city lights of Perth, Western Australia. It's simply amazing how enormous the tail is. This photograph was taken at 41mm focal length!
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Comet McNaught 17th Jan - With Venus over Perth
The comet C/2006 P1 McNaught shown with Venus over the city of Perth, Western Australia. Framed by gumtrees in the Perth Hills.
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Comet McNaught full frame
Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught almost full frame with soft colours of sunset surrounding.
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Comet McNaught 16th Jan - With Venus
Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught shown with Venus over the city of Perth, Western Australia.
On this particular night the comet was exceptionally bright just before setting, standing out with an exceedingly obvious bright tail.
The comet is to the centre left, Venus is to the right. The city centre is to the right, out of the field of view.
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Comet McNaught 16th Jan - Towering
Comet McNaught towering over the lights of Perth, Western Australia. For the benefit of the locals, the comet appears in the same field of view as the canning bridge area.
This photo shows just how amazingly bright the comet was/is and how much of it's tail is visible during the middle of twilight.
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Comet McNaught 14th Jan
A photograph of Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught taken between clouds on the 14th Jan from Perth, Western Australia.
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Comet McNaught 15th Jan
Comet McNaught appearing briefly between clouds.
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The Green Flash
Just as the sun sets a green flash is sometimes visible just above the sphere of he sun.
I had never seen this until the nights when I was waiting for comet C/2006 P1 McNaught to set over the city of Perth. On 2 of the 3 nights I viewed the comet I managed to see the green flash, and on the 16th I managed to capture it with this shot.
The green flash only lasts a second or two at the most and does not always occur.
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Sunset - 14th January
Sunset while waiting to photograph comet C/2006 P1 McNaught.
Believe it or not, this image does actually have some of the 'green flash' sometimes visible on the top of the sun at sunset. I will hopefully prepare an enlarged section son to make it more clear.
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Sunset - 15th January
A quick shot of the sunset on the 15th January 2007 while waiting for the clouds to clear and sun to set such that I can photograph comet C/2006 P1 McNaught
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The Location
Just a quick shot showing the surroundings where I took the photos on January 14th and 15th of the comet. Taken while waiting for the clouds to clear.
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