Comet Swan


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01-11-2006 5x2min - starting at 19:56:12 UT. 1600 ASA.

Photographers - all of the astronomy class.



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Photo by students from our new astronomy class - 12x120 sec - starting at 04-10-2006 18:57:08 UT.

Conditions difficult - full moon, light pollution and drifting clouds.

Photographers : Simon T. Vammen, Anne Kroul and Soeren Holm Grundt et al.

This comet discovered from Australia end of June 2006, has an hyperbolic orbit - eccentricity > 1 - indicating an origin outside our solar system.

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More images by our new astronomy students

Moon at 29-11-2006 20:32:07 UT - 1/180 sec - ISO 400


Moon at 27-11-2006 17:42:10 UT - 1/125 sec - ISO 800 - by Sune


Vanishing moon at 16-11-2006 08:12:46 UT - 1/500 sec - ISO 400 - by Sune


Moon at 09-11-2006 19:21:55 - 1/250 sec - 400 ASA.


Full Moon at 03-11-2006 21:31:14 - 1/750 sec - 800 ASA.

Comparison - interactive lunar atlas


Nearly full Moon at 01-11-2006 21:31:14 - 1/750 sec - 800 ASA.



Nearly full moon at 04-10-2006 19:57:37 UT.


Red moon rising

13-09-2006 21:32:14 UT - Morten Hulvei Andersen, Christian Simon Nielsen, Simon T. Vammen