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RE: A Moment That Changed My Life + tell me your story!
Well you have a clear knack for composition @derekkind . When I saw your images coming up in the new feed for the first time I could tell straight-away you were a great photographer.
My story...well I started as a Mech Engineer, hated it (took 10 years to work that out!), went into IT. Have always been interested in astronomy and later dabbled in photography, then combined the 2 interests and ended up finding a couple of comets, which are named after me, and thats about it!
Geeking out here but I took some very simple photos of what I am now assuming was your Comet ! C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on 17 Jan 2015. Was my first go at a comet so it was just taken with a 400mm lens. I was super excited at the time just to capture something. Have never shared them as they are not high quality compared to what is out there professionally. I have not edited them its just the in-camera JPG colour. Excited to think that you found this.
One with some trails.
Good work @interpidphotos as the tail was detailed but pretty faint I seem to remember and required a lot of exposure.
Small world! :D
Actually a very large one that we are observing the edge of through a small piece of ground glass. ;/). But yes I know what you mean!
Literalist! :P
I actually fluctulate between literalist and surrealist ; like some sort of mad man. It’s the middle ground that I can’t stand.
Well, if you can manage to find a balance between then, you'll find you're pretty well centered on reality.
More like a sine wave.
Now you're sciencing over my head.
Wow your that 'lovejoy' ! So epic.
Yes!
Well thank you, @terrylovejoy, I appreciate your words! But now let me geek out a little here too - you're that Lovejoy? That's awesome!!! I'm going to have to check to see if I photographed one of your comet like @intrepidphotos did. I may have missed it, sadly, but we'll see. Thanks for sharing that. :)
That would be cool @derekkind it was early 2015 so have a look back around that time. Actually around the time of that Lunar Eclipse. There was also another Lovejoy comet back in late 2013 that was fairly bright as well.
Okay! I'm more likely to have caught the first one, I was pretty busy in the spring of 2015.