Comet McNaught is putting on a grand show in the southern hemisphere. I saw comet McNaught C/2006 P1 only once on January 10, 2007 before it headed south. I easily saw Mcnaught with the naked eye. It had a short bright tail.
The comet was so bright, and so close to the horizon, that the Earth's atmosphere made the comet's head red, white, & blue!
After passing close to the Sun on January 15th this comet became the brightest comet in over 40 years and began to display a huge dust tail. By many accounts this comet had the grandest tail since Donati's Comet in 1858. The tail swept to the north and could even be seen from South Jersey when the head of the comet was only visable south of the equator. I took this photo on January 20th along the Maurice River showing the Moon & Venus below three rays or streamers from the tail of comet McNaught. Click on the photo for more detail.
3 comments:
Hi Raymie,
nice photo! is the comet the bright object in the lower portion of the picture?
Missy
The comet is not seen. Only the tail. The comet is only seen down under!
As in south of the equator!
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