Comet Lulin
by Mike Hankey, under Comets & Meteors
Here’s an animated gif of comet lulin, a once per million year comet discovered in 2007. There are 9 frames that make up the animation, 30 seconds exposures for each frame.
Comet Lunin Feb 21, 2009
You can tell how fast the comet is moving by looking at the stars in the background (this is a total elapsed time of less than 5 minutes). That thing is bookin.
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March 29th, 2009 on 7:22 am
This is soooo cool!
Great website
April 1st, 2009 on 7:21 pm
wonderful comet animation Mike! this would show up great as a delayed exposure shot as well
July 23rd, 2009 on 8:18 am
Lulin!