Monday, March 16, 2015

Comet Lovejoy Photobombed by Meteor

We have a new large format camera for the Bucknell Observatory, and I recently tested it on Comet Lovejoy. The reward was a chance appearance of a meteor, visible as a diagonal streak just above the comet.  For reference, the field-of-view is roughly 1/2 degree across, or roughly the width of a full moon.