Comet Machholz on New Years Day

Picture taken as 23:53 on 01/01/05 from Worcester Park, London. Very light polluted location.





Pleiades is top middle. Comet Machholz is green smudge 3/4 way down just left of middle.

TIF edited in ACDSee 7 - unsharp mask, then levels, then resized, then levels again then saved as JPG.



Here's a closeup of the comet with levels adjusted (only) to show amount of noise then saved as JPG





Here's the closeup of comet cropped and saved as JPG





Here's the closeup of comet cropped, levels adjusted and saved as JPG