Since Richard was getting up early to hunt deer, I thought this was the perfect morning to attempt to photograph my first comet. I had studied the star maps and how to locate where Comet Ison would be. I determined what settings I’d use for each shot, and I picked the spot I thought would be best. Once I got to my spot, I did have a lot of light pollution in the area, and I couldn’t see anything I felt was the comet with my naked eye. But, I took a lot of photos in various settings and hoped I might have something.
This shot is zoomed out to include both Spica and Mercury. My star maps has said the comet would be close to Spica but heading south toward Mercury.
Here I zoomed into my max of 250 mm to the spot I felt the comet might be.
It wasn’t until I zoomed in and lightened up this photo and got to really looking that I saw that this one “star” was green. Now, I don’t know this was the comet, but maybe???
