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Comet Lovejoy Last Night

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy has reached its maximum brightness. This is a photo of it last night, as seen under the dark skies of the Eastern Sierra. Knowing where to look (near the star cluster Pleiades) I was able to just make it out with my eyes, then find it with a 70-200 mm lens.

It showed up well in photos captured on a full frame DSLR with 16 – 35 mm lens at 30 mm focal length with no star tracking mount, but for the 200 mm shots I used a tracking mount so the stars wouldn't "drag" in the photo from the rotation of the earth.
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Jeff Sullivan

Jeff Sullivan leads landscape photography workshops in national parks and public lands throughout California and the American West.

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