Comet 2004 Q2 Machholz Image Gallery

Comet 2004 Q2 Machholz Image Gallery

Taken by members of ALP

DATE IMAGE TAKEN BY NOTES

05-02-04

050204comet_machholz_04q2-b-tn.jpg (7898 bytes) James Kevin Ty

Image taken using Canon EOS 300D with TV-101 refractor. 1 minute exposure at ISO 800

05-01-15 050115comet_machholz_04q2-a-tn.jpg (9998 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon EOS 300D with TV-101 refractor. 2 minutes exposure at ISO 1600
05-01-10 050110comet_machholz_04q2_jett-tn.jpg (3931 bytes) Jett Aguilar Image taken using Canon EOS 300D with Stellarvue AT1010 refractor. 49 sec exposure at ISO 1600.
05-01-10 050110comet_machholz_04q2_wide_jett-tn.jpg (3928 bytes) Jett Aguilar Image taken using Canon EOS 300D with 55mm f/5.6 lens. 69 sec exposure at ISO 800.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2_visaya-tn.jpg (2940 bytes) Lea Visaya Sketch made using a 12x50mm binoculars.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2_wide_visaya-tn.jpg (3172 bytes) Lea Visaya Sketch made using a 12x50mm binoculars.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2-c-tn.jpg (11994 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D on TV-101 refractor at ISO 1600. 4 minutes exposure.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2_wide-a-tn.jpg (12316 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D on TV-101 refractor at ISO 1600. 2 minutes exposure.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2_yu-tn.jpg (8198 bytes) Allen Yu Image taken using 400mm f/5.6 lens with Canon AE-1 with Fuji 800 film. 4 minute exposure.
05-01-08 050108comet_machholz_04q2_am-b-tn.jpg (10206 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D on TV-101 refractor at ISO 1600. 3.5 minutes exposure.
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_wide-a-tn.jpg (12092 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D with 320mm f/5.6 at ISO 1600. 2 minute exposure.
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_wide-yu-tn.jpg (7461 bytes) Allen Yu Image taken using 200mm f/4 lens with Canon AE-1 with Fuji 800 film. 1 minute exposure.
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_wide_junlao-tn.jpg (6906 bytes) Francisco Lao, Jr. Image taken using a Sony
Digital camera F717  at ASA 800 f/2 to f/2.4 .
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_wide_edwelda1-tn.jpg (2624 bytes) Edwin Aguirre & Imelda Joson Image taken using Canon 20D digital SLR camera with a 200-mm zoom lens piggybacked to a Takahashi FS-78 refractor on EM-10 mount. It is a stack of twelve 20-second unguided exposures, with the camera set at ISO 400 and the lens at f/2.8. We used Registax 2 for aligning and stacking the frames and Photoshop 6.0 for adjusting the brightness/contrast and color balance.
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_visaya-tn.jpg (3162 bytes) Lea Visaya Sketch made using a 12x50mm binoculars.
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_wide_jett-tn.jpg (3129 bytes) Jett Aguilar Image taken using Canon 300D at 28 mm, 78 sec exposure at ISO 800
05-01-07 050107comet_machholz_04q2_jett-tn.jpg (3245 bytes) Jett Aguilar Image taken using Canon 300D on an 8 inch Celestron SCT at prime focus, 143 sec exposure at ISO 1600.
05-01-05 050105comet_machholz_04q2-g1-tn.jpg (8539 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D on TV-101 refractor at ISO 1600. 2 minutes exposure.
05-01-05 050105comet_machholz_04q2_wide-d-tn.jpg (9482 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D at 240 mm f/5.6 lens, 165 sec exposure at ISO 400
05-01-05 050105comet_machholz_04q2_wide-a-tn.jpg (8759 bytes) James Kevin Ty Image taken using Canon 300D at 28 mm f/4 lens, 30 sec exposure at ISO 1600
05-01-05 050105comet_machholz_04q2_uygongco-tn.jpg (6184 bytes) Kenneth Uygongco Image taken using Nexstar 8i with Sony DSC-V1 digital camera. Afocal with 40mm Maxview eyepiece. 30 sec exposure at ISO 800.

05-01-01

050101comet_machholz_04q2_visaya-tn.jpg (3617 bytes) Lea Visaya

Sketch made using a 12x50mm binoculars.

05-01-01

050101comet_machholz_04q2_jett-tn.jpg (5700 bytes) Jett Aguilar

Image of   Machholz taken with Canon 300D on Stellarvue AT1010 refractor. 4x60 sec exposure at ISO 800 processed with Maxim DL and Photoshop

05-01-01

050101comet_machholz_04q2_wide_jett-tn.jpg (5683 bytes) Jett Aguilar

Image of   Machholz taken with Canon 300D with at f/5.6  28mm lens.30 sec unguided exposure.

04-12-30

041230comet_machholz_04q2_junlao-b-tn.jpg (3737 bytes) Francisco Lao, Jr.

The comet showed an elongated coma through the binocs, and probably shows a better and larger coma in dark skies. The image was taken using a Sony DSC F717
digital camera at ASA 800, f/2 and 25 seconds exposure.

04-12-28 041228comet_machholz_04q2_torres-tn.jpg (3061 bytes) Jesus Rodrigo Torres Sketch made using a Celestron C8 with 20mm Plossl giving 100x.
04-12-27 041227comet_machholz_04q2_torres-tn.jpg (3162 bytes) Jesus Rodrigo Torres Sketch made using a Celestron C8 with 20mm Plossl giving 100x.
04-12-26 041226comet_machholz_04q2_torres-tn.jpg (3250 bytes) Jesus Rodrigo Torres Sketch made using a Celestron C8 with 20mm Plossl giving 100x.

04-12-22

041222comet_machholz_04q2_torres-tn.jpg (3387 bytes) Jesus Rodrigo Torres

Sketch made using a Celestron C8 with 40mm Plossl giving 50x.

04-12-20

041220comet_machholz_04q2_junlao-tn.jpg (3830 bytes) Francisco Lao, Jr.

Image taken using Sony F717 digital camera , set  to a manual setting, at ASA 800 and 30 second exposure and f/2 f/ratio

04-12-19

041219comet_machholz_04q2_jett-tn.jpg (2766 bytes)

Jett Aguilar

Image of Machholz taken with Canon 300D on C8 with 6.3 focal reducer. 103 sec exposure
04-12-17

041217comet_machholz_04q2_junlao-tn.jpg (2980 bytes)

Francisco Lao, Jr.

Image taken using Sony F717 digital camera , set  to a manual setting, at ASA 800 and 30 second exposure and f/2 f/ratio
04-12-16

041216comet_machholz_04q2_go-tn.jpg (7616 bytes)

Christopher Go

Image taken using AP130 refractor on AP900 GTO mount. Exposure LRGB (90sec L , 30sec R , 30sec G , 30sec B) 2x2 binned
04-12-15

041215comet_machholz_04q2_africa-tn.jpg (3101 bytes)

Eric Africa

Image taken  using ST-8 CCD camera on FS-102 on EM-200 mount. Exposure: LUMINANCE: 10 x 1 minute binned 1x1 ; RED: 5 x 1 minute binned 2x2 ; GREEN: 5 x 1 minute binned 2x2 ; BLUE: 5 x 1 minute binned 2x2
04-12-15

041215comet_machholz_04q2_junlao-tn.jpg (3844 bytes)

Francisco Lao, Jr.

Image taken using Sony F717 digital camera , set   to a manual setting, at ASA 800 and 30 second exposure and f/2 f/ratio
04-12-04

041204comet_machholz_04q2-tn.jpg (756 bytes)

James Kevin Ty

Comet 2004 Q2 Machholz in Columba  - Now with a brightness magnitude of  6.0, the comet shows now a larger  greenish nucleus compared to my image taken last Nov 14. Unfortunately, it still shows a  short tail less than a degree long still. Image taken using TV-101 refractor on GP-DX mount. Exposure 3 minutes guided.
04-12-04

041204machholz_04q2_jett-tn.jpg (2693 bytes)

Jett Aguilar

I got a 1 minute exposure before the sky finally got covered with dense clouds.  Well, I’m still quite satisfied since this is my first comet image ever! Image taken using a C8 with f/6.3 reducer/corrector
04-11-14

041114comet_machholz_04q2-tn.jpg (1060 bytes)

James Kevin Ty

Comet 2004 Q2 Machholz in Columba  - a mag 7 brightening comet with greenish nucleus and a short tail less than a degree long..Image taken using TV-101 refractor on GP-DX mount. Exposure 3 minutes guided. 
04-11-13

041114comet_machholz_04q2_allen-tn.jpg (3798 bytes)

Allen Yu

Sketched the comet using a 10" f/5.6 dobsonian reflector.

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