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<\/a>Listening out of the comet<\/p><\/div>The sky at Chilean Atacama desert is just incredible. And I was so lucky with visiting the La Silla observatory<\/a> on 19th January 2015 – just right on time when the comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy<\/a> was approaching close to the open star cluster Pleiades<\/em>. The conditions were just amazing, so I didn’t have any problems to see the comet and capture it in the center stage among lot of deep-sky objects around (like California nebula<\/em> or the structures of dark nebulae in faint northern Milky way). The first image shows view around the La Silla Submillimetre telescope<\/a> (with the dome of 3,6-m telescope in the distance). Comet is just up on the left part of the view. Bright object close to the plate is planet Jupiter<\/em>. In the reflection you can also recognize the Milky way constellation Southern Cross<\/em> and famous star Alpha Centauri<\/em>. And also you can try to find the Dark coalsack<\/em> nebula or Carina nebula<\/em>. Green hue is caused by airglow. Used Canon 6D Baader IR Mod, Sigma 15 mm, f3,5, ISO 8000, 92×15 s; tripod; darkframes applied.<\/p>\n La Silla view to the comet Lovejoy<\/p><\/div>Well, just after couple hours the comet was about to say good-bye that night, so I decided to capture that moment too. The reason was crystal – from the platform with 3,6-m telescope there was the view not only to the comet itself, but also to the rest of the La Silla domes under it. What a luck that during the sequential photography a bright meteor had fallen too. That made the resultant image much more unique… Canon 6D, Samyang 24 mm, f2.8, ISO 8000, 92×15 s; tripod, darkframes applied.<\/p>\n This image you can download in full dimension as the ESO Picture of the week<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sky at Chilean Atacama desert is just incredible. And I was so lucky with visiting the La Silla observatory on 19th January 2015 – just right on time when the comet C\/2014 Q2 Lovejoy was approaching close to the open star cluster Pleiades. The conditions were just amazing, so I didn’t have any problems… <\/a>
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