Starship Asterisk*

(Comet ISON) slipping past the God of War
Copyrights: Gregg Ruppel

Comet ISON C/2012 S1, On October 21st, 08:55-09:16ut. Influence by Moon, Sun, Mars glares. (LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F6.3, CGE mount, ST402me NAB Ccd, Astronomik Ir/Uv filter.

Outburst of comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR)
Copyrights: Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini Comet ISON Near Mars & Regulus on 10-18-2013
Copyrights: John Chumack

First Image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on October 24 2013
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Copyright: Marion Haligowski


First Image of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on October 24 2013 by Radical Retinoscopy, on Flickr

Seventeen 8 second exposures (800 ISO / Canon 100 mm f/2.0 lens @ f/2.2 / Canon T2i) were stacked using Images Plus with some light post processing work in PS. I think when the moon sets I will finally drag my equatorial mount out at 5 am and do this fuzzy blob some justice!

Comet C2013R1 (Lovejoy) on October 28th
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory Info and hi-res images available on the website

Comet 2P/ Encke On October 28th, 0936-43ut. 7 x 1 min. Exp. Just barely above the forest canopy and being effected by sunrise. (no croping).

Update: Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On October 28th, 08:50-09:06ut. 8 x 2 min. Exp. Lower image 1 x 1 min. Exp. (no croping).

Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 On October 28th, 08:15-25ut. 5 x 2 min. Exp. Now showing its tails. (no croping).

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On October 31st, 09:17-34ut. Coma much denser now around the nucleus.(17 x 1 minute Exp.) Equipment info on image.

Comet ISON with M95 - Oct 24th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet ISON in colour - Oct 27th.
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet ISON 2012 S1 on 10-26-2013
Copyrights: John Chumack 4 bright Comets to see this Fall!
Copyrights: John Chumack Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - 27th October
Copyritghts: Scott Ferguson

Comet 2P/Encke & The Virgo Cluster (Oct 30th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet 2P/Encke close-up (Oct 30th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet Lovejoy (Oct 31st.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach

Attached are four taken the morning of November 3 within hours of each other. Each is a single 6min Exposure using a Sloan Yellow Filter and the 4.5" F/4 astrograph. Image scale is preserved. Linear is 8th mag, Encke is 7.8mag, ISON is 8mag and Lovejoy is 10th mag...
I think its amazing there are (4) reasonably bright comets appearing so close to each other in our sky.
Left to right comets: Linear...Encke...ISON...Lovejoy

Same night I viewed ISON in 10X70 Binoculars...
November 3, 2013

Copyright Dave Erickson 2013 http://www.hbastro.com

Comet C/2013R1 (Lovejoy) on November 2nd 2013
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory Info and hi-res images available on the website

Comet C/2013S1 (ISON) on November 3rd 2013
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory Info and hi-res images available on the website

Comet ISON C/2012 S1 On November 4th, 08:40-54ut. Just barely took this session before the clouds terminated this session. Torrential rain in the last three days here and more on the way. Equipment info on image, (not croped).

Update: Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 On November 4th, 07:37-48ut, Lower image at 07:57ut at three minute exposures, A faint distant Galaxy PGC23559 just below the nucleus. Lovejoy is becoming very impressive with a very bright leading edge coma (front) and length of its tail. Equipmeny info on image, (not croped).

Comet C/2012S1 (ISON) on November 2nd 2013
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory Info and hi-res images available on the website

Lemmon comet C/2012 F6 by M52 and the Bubble...
12/25-Jul-2013
Takahashi FSQ85@f5.3
Canon Eos 60D CentralDS
Avalon M-Uno singlearm mount
1 hour RGB Monte Labbro (GR)
5 hours Ha(12nm) Fara Sabina (RI)
Alessandro Milani
http://fotodistelle.it/dso/cometa-lemmon-m52-bolla/

Panstarrs c/2011 L4
March 15th 2013
Apo-Telyt-R 180/3.4
Canon Eos 60D CentralDS
Eq3 Syscan
1x25"
Alessandro Milani
http://fotodistelle.it/planets/cometa-p ... -c2011-l4/

Comet Lovejoy LRGB (Oct 30th)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Comet C/2012 R1 (Lovejoy)
Copyrights: Jost Jahn

Comet Ison and Meteor - Canon 6D and Canon 200mm lens, ISO 6400, 10 sec. f2.8 on a Ioptron Skytracker. Frame from timelapse taken 11-7. See the timelapse on my site, and a larger version of this. http://dakotalapse.com/2013/11/comet-ison/

Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) and M44 Beehive cluster
Copyright: W.L.Chin
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ISON from Reunion Island
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Copyright: Luc Perrot I dreamed of photographing the comet ISON. I succeeded this morning. Here it is visible above the enclosure of the Piton de la Fournaise, at Réunion Island.

Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 On November 7th, 07:12-19ut.

Comet Lovejoy C/2013 R1 On November 7th, 08:21ut, 1min 15sec. Exp.
Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, Canon T3i (600D).