Drove back to Pt. Mouillee again this evening and did some comet viewing with Allen Chartier and his wife Nancy. The nearly cloudless sky gave me a chance to photograph Comet Panstarrs through my telescope.
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| View through Celestron C-8 |
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| Shot through my 500mm lens |
The photo above shows the comet as the sky got a little darker. The longer exposure revealed a dim star under the comet. The star is named 51 Piscium and it shines at magnitude 5.68. With each magnitude equaling roughly 2.52x brighter the Panstarrs is probably 3 or 4 magnitudes brighter than the star.
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