Daytime Comet with clouds, the brightest to appear in 41 years. Perihelion passage, just 7° from sun.
Originally uploaded by edhiker ( Ed Johnson ) Click on photo for larger version

I like this best out of the nine posted.
Comet McNaught ( C/2006 P1 ) taken on 1/12/07 by Ed Johnson (edhiker)

Daytime Comet McNaught. The comet was visible during daytime hours for several days around 1/12/07, the day of it's closest approach to the sun.


3D orbit visualization http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=2006+P1

Sky and Telescope selected shots (has Ed Johnson's image) http://skytonight.com/community/gallery/skyevents/5129766.html

Comet pictures, selected by edhiker
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=353230950&size=l
http://flickr.com/photos/edhiker/357774577/ (from http://flickr.com/photos/edhiker/ )
http://media.skytonight.com/images/McNaught+070114+Karrer.jpg
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=352861845&context=pool-68076698@N00&size=o
http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/mcnaught/13jan07/Finazzi1.jpg Sun, Green Flash, and Comet perspective

Siding Spring Observatory - about the discovery and extensive discussion http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2006P1.htm
The real Rob McNaught http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/mcnaught.jpg

Links http://spaceweather.com/
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006P1/2006P1.html
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2006P1_1.html C/2006 P1 (McNaught)--Daily Ephemeris
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=comet+McNaught Google search results

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Daytime Comet, the brightest to appear in our skies in more than 30 years, seen at NOON on 1/12/07 at it's closest approch to the sun.
Originally uploaded by edhiker. http://www.flickr.com/photos/edhiker/357774577/

The daytime photos were taken with a Canon DSLR attached to a 8" f7 telescope.

It was at perihelion about the time this photo was taken (around 19:00 UT on January 12th)

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Daytime Comet with clouds, the brightest to appear in our skies in more than 30 years. Perihelion passage, just 7° from sun

Going through my shots of 1/12/07, I found the one in the entry above with clouds - adds some perspective. Taken midday in the city of Los Angeles, Canon DSLR, 1400mm. Home ground optics.

It was fun watching the clouds passing comet McNaught, too bad I didn't have a video camera running for this event. A time-lapse after sunset series (movie) from a local 6800' mountain (darker skies) would have been neat.

I can't ever recall seeing a comet surrounded by wispy afternoon clouds, let alone from Los Angeles California
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This picture is on page 91 of April Sky &Telescope
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Half size image, 640x478 on about page 10 at: skytonight.com/community/gallery/skyevents/5129766.html?p...