Moonset, sunrise, robins rapt
Comet Tsuchinshan
The wider view
Look what the wind blew in
Vandalism, methinks
No professional courtesy here
Evening grosbeak
Wedding
Coupla grosbeaks
Oh well
It's been a while
I'll miss it
They weren't sure but their bodyguard knew
Self-portrait, of a sort
Pigeon
Flicker
Bluejays
Enjoying the low sun
Looking up
Still looking up
Prairie warbler, a long way from where he should b…
Not far from our door
November flourish
Black tomatoes
Reflected
Ripening inside
A neighbourhood street
Also no comet
No comet
I can explain
Going downtown for the night
Puddled path and its alternative
Some thumb or other
About a third
Squawker
Comfrey
Butter & eggs
Bernlaw
Bluejay
Crow in the rain
Sharpie
Hazelnut
What the techno-gods granted me
"Take it, willya!"
View from the hotel window
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That hard-to-pronounce-in-English comet


It was suppertime and we had finished eating. Normally we'd sit back down for a pot of tea. But we decided to drive the twenty-minute walk up the hill to a spot where we'd have a good chance of seeing Comet Tsuchinshan.
We waited about fifteen minutes, until exactly 64 minutes after sunset, before we saw it. But we did see it. And my camera recorded it.
Even at ISO 10,000, this was a third of a second. Handheld, by the way, thanks for internal stabilisation in the camera!
The bright lights of the court of King Caractacus (uhh, the Elonmuskalites) were just passing by, from right to left below the comet's head. A third of second was long enough to scratch a little streak in the heavens in that part of my picture.
We waited about fifteen minutes, until exactly 64 minutes after sunset, before we saw it. But we did see it. And my camera recorded it.
Even at ISO 10,000, this was a third of a second. Handheld, by the way, thanks for internal stabilisation in the camera!
The bright lights of the court of King Caractacus (uhh, the Elonmuskalites) were just passing by, from right to left below the comet's head. A third of second was long enough to scratch a little streak in the heavens in that part of my picture.
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