Comet is the faint blue streak at the right hand side. Don't know what happened to my centering, camera might not have quite been in line with the scope. Rapt, have been able to follow this comet photographically since 2 Dec, through all its stages.
Top catch Rob, I almost missed the FOV. Set the co-ordinates and just squeezed it into the 200mm FOV. This is 3x5 minute exposures with 5D MK II at ISO 6400.
Great work once again.
Hope to try tonight through the new scope. Polar aligned it last night, need to do PEC training tonight, and hopefully that will be enough to get some reasonable length exposures.
I'm still waiting on the auto guider package to come.
Good to see you got it Justin. Could be hard to find at that focal length. I tried last night, only got one exposure before cloud arrived. Cannot see the comet in my FOV, the sky was very murky before the cloud.
Congratulations Lester on your Lovejoy image from 23 Dec making it onto the front cover of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. http://britastro.org/journal/122-1.htm
Hi all, this is 5x6 minute exposures with Astro 40D at ISO 1600 and Takahashi 160mm Epsilon Astrograph. This scope was trained by a pro for comets; before I had it.
I can see it with averted vision on your image Rob. This comet is over magnitude 17 now and large/diffuse, so to record it with a tail of over 4 degrees, it is still the largest southern comet in our skies. Well done Rob.
Thanks Lester. I took it at 200mm and it was maxed-out for my camera/lens combination at ISO 1600 & F/5.6. The 5 subs represented 20 mins of painstaking hand-cranking trying to avoid the slightest tremor in the wobbly EQ1 mount, but 30 min in all because there were two wasted framing subs and two shorter subs interrupted by cloud. Never gone that long before on a target!
I had a go last night but waited onto it go into my - heavily light polluted - western sky so the gradients are very bad and not worth posting here (although it is still visible).