Observation by Clive Nanson: One from from the archive

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Clive Nanson

Observer

Clive Nanson

Observed

1986 Apr 06 - 11:20

Uploaded

2022 Oct 05 - 11:07

Objects

1P Halley

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Constellation

Scorpius

Field centre

RA: 16^h50^m
Dec: -45°27'
Position angle: +3°57'

Field size

25° × 37°

Equipment

Praktica MTL3 SLR
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Home made tracker

Exposure

60 sec at f2

Location

Parkes, New South Wales, Australia

Target name

Comet Halley

Title

One from from the archive

About this image

A couple of weeks ago whilst rummaging in the loft I came across the photos I took of Comet Halley during my trip to Australia. I had only ever looked at them using a projector but as I now have a film scanner I decided to see if I could apply some additional processing to them. All the photos other than this one image suffered from poor tracking or insufficient exposure.

Scanned in at 3600 DPI to give a 5017 x 3372 pixel, 48-bit TIF file, it was certainly more challenging to process than modern stacked DSLR images. Comet Halley is the smudge in the middle straddling the Milky Way just below Scorpius's tail. The bright star at the very top of the image is Antares.

Files associated with this observation

halley.jpg (997.5 kB)

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Dr Paul Leyland, Alan Thomas, Dominic Ford, Callum Potter, Grant Privett, Nick James, Tom Axelsen

Comments

Nick James, 2022 Oct 12 - 06:56 UTC

It's great to see another picture of Halley's 1986 return emerge from the depths of an old slide collection. There are a few others taken on 1986 April 6 in the Comet Section archive here including one rather poor one by me taken from Tenerife. If you would like to submit yours you can do it following the link here.

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