Comet hunter

In light of recent events in the sky over our planet, the subject of comets has become quite urgent. Especially because the comet Panstarr this year will not be the only flying within sight from Earth.

We decided to make a small selection of photos of "hunters" of comets made in different places and at different times. One of the most successful pictures Panstarr over Los Angeles. Picture taken March 12, 2013 Gene Blevins.





Panstarr over Las Vegas. All the same March 12 Ethan Miller.



Comet Panstarr over Parkes telescope in Australia. Photo made March 5 John Sarkisian.



March 2, Minoru Yoneto, New Zealand.



Astronomer Terry Lovejoy made here is a snapshot of February 2, 2013.



Mark Teyssen March 7, 2013, Chile.



Victor Gabriel Beebe, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, February 26, 2013.



Ignacio Diaz Bobillier, Argentina, February 15, 2013.



Panstarr in the sky over South Africa March 2, 2013. Photo Dieter Villas.



Comet Lovejoy. The picture was taken by Dan Burbank from the ISS in December 2011.



Tail of Comet Lovejoy in the sky before dawn Australia, 21 December 2011. Photo by Colin Legg.



Comet Lovejoy in the predawn darkness in Chile, December 22, 2011.



Austrian Michael Jager took a picture of Comet McNaught June 6, 2010.



Comet Siding Spring captures infrared space telescope NASA. Photos published on 17 February 2010.



Johnny Horne made February 23, 2009 the comet Lulin picture, using a 300-mm lens and a half-hour endurance.



Briton Nick Houes made one of the most high-quality images of comet Hartley 2 on October 21, 2010. For comet characteristic haze of dust and gas around the nucleus, as well as reddish tail.



Stephane Gizard in the vicinity of Santiago de Chile captured Comet McNaught. It was in January 2007.



Comet McNaught over New Zealand January 18, 2007.



On the Chilean coast soars Comet McNaught. David Lillo, January 19, 2007.



Comet Holmes, John Stevenson, 12 November 2007.



And she's over southern Alberta, Canada. November 1, 2007, Alan Dyer.



Comet Hale-Bopp captured in 1997, photographer Jamie Cooper in England.



The same comet over Mount Fuji, Japan, March 31, 1997, Sledge Shimbun.



Good luck to all hunting Panstarr!