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Comet McNaught from the southern hemisphere
by Simon at 09:23 22/01/07 (Blogs::Simon)
You lucky antipodeans!

Take a look at the photos from the southern hemisphere of comet McNaught - truly spectacular!

Update: additional photo links now added
Update 2: Two of Rob McNaughts's own photos included in the page (with permission)

Kevin Crause's picture from spaceweather.com (he's in S. Africa)

Other images:

Some additional pictures (I'll repeatedly update this as I find more)

http://www.spacew.com/gallery/image005564.html

http://tinyurl.com/39gjbm

http://www.pbase.com/terrylovejoy/image/73225463

http://www.psychohistorian.org/astronomy/news/comet-mcnaught-c2006-p1.html#comet-gallery

http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm (Rob McNaught's own page. Rob has granted permission for the low res images on his site to be used on other websites, so I've taken the opportunity to include a couple here)

© Rob NcNaughtJan 20th 2006 by Rob McNaught of Siding Spring Observatory

© Rob NcNaughtJan 20th 2006 by Rob McNaught of Siding Spring Observatory

http://www.cieletespace.fr/Actualites/VisuImage.aspx?idMedia=3746

http://members.tip.net.au/~vello/2006p1/2006p1.htm

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/mcnaught.htm

http://www.groupeastronomiespa.be/mcnaught/ (Flash)

http://www.darknights.biz/Gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=281

http://www.digitalsky.org.uk/comets/P1_McNaught/C2006-P1-McNaught_Jan20.html (extremities of the tail visible from Selsey in the UK, Jan 20th)

http://southern-x.org/so_x/p1/P121st_0823.jpg

http://www.starrynightphotos.com/minor_planet/comet_mcnaught_images.htm

http://www.starrynightphotos.com/minor_planet/comet_mcnaught_animation.htm

http://ares.nrl.navy.mil/sungrazer/images/h1a_comet_jan11_18_lo.mpg

http://www.yp-connect.net/~mmatti/

http://www.starrynightphotos.com/minor_planet/comet_mcnaught_images_4.htm - nice deep sky image.
--
simon

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