Comet PanStarrs at last!

Clear skies finally arrived after a month of poor weather. At about 8:30 I ran out to the nearby garages and placed my camera and small tripod on the roof of my car, pointed it in the general drection of where I thought was the comet and shot off four or so 30sec exposures. I used an IDAS light pollution filter on a 24-42mm 4/3 micro lens, Panasonic Lumix gf3 camera.

Spent about an hour looking at the images and processing them on my PC along with a deep sky location map of the comet from the web.
Managed to track down the exact loaction of the comet. By jove I have it on the image!




The comet is near the triangle of stars towards the bottom left of the image. Near the top center of the image, directly up from the comet is the Andromeda Galaxy.

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