McNaughts Comet Eyre Peninsula South Australia

I’ve never realised that comets could be so beautiful. What you see below is a 30sec exposure taken somewhere in South Australia.

McNaughts Comet Eyre Peninsula South Australia Originally uploaded by john white photos

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McNaught Comet over Big Swamp South Australia.
Discovered by Australian Robert McNaught in August 2006.

Canon 5D
2007:01:22 21:42:10
24-105mm @ 24mm
30 sec, f/4
Mode: Manual
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 800
AF mode: Manual Focus
Drive: Single frame shooting
Self-timer: 10 secs
White balance: Daylight
Flash: Off
File size: 10.8MB
Image size: 4368 x 2912
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 3
Contrast: Normal
Sharpness level: 3
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn 2: Long exposure noise reduction: On
RAW converted in Breeze Browser Pro.

Why 24mm focal length?

Photographed the week before with a 100 – 400mm and missed most of the tail.
Wanted to give the comet a sense of scale/size by going wide and including the two trees (living and dead) and the swamp.

Watch out for a future copy of Discover Magazine (USA) with this photo as it Masthead Image

Cheers John