Comet 2014 Q2 Lovejoy 15th Dec

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

12x3 minutes of data, shot through the 127mm triplet using my Canon CDS1100D @ ISO 1600.
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and processed in CS3.
The first pic is stacked on Stars only, the second was stacked on stars and comet then inverted to show the detail in the tail better.
thanks for looking.

[h0ughy (David)]

fantastic JJJ - love the details and the pic as a whole

[algwat (Alan)]

As good as those guys in the northern hemisphere, well done.
kind regards, Alan

[Nightskystargaz (Thomas)]

Jeanette,

Very nice image of Comet 2014 Q2 (Lovejoy on Dec. 15th .

CS,KLU,

,

Tom

[blink138 (Pat)]

that is truly a wonderful sight nettie!
pat

[Somnium (Aidan)]

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

A very beautiful and detailed comet image, nice one JJJ

[gregbradley]

That's a really excellent comet image JJJ/. Wow, really nicely done.

Where is it at the moment?

Greg.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

It's almost smack dab between Canopus and Sirius.
Under dark skies you can just make it out naked eye, but binos will pick it up very easily.
Thanks for looking everyone.

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Well done. lovely image.

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Great shots jjj
AL

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Cheers good buddies.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Yeah this is very cool JJJ, just showed my wife and said how good is this, maybe I should have a shot at it? haven't imaged a comet telescopically since 2004 - and then she said "Oooh, that's nice dear" ...I think my FOV is a bit small though

Mike

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

What camera lenses do you have Mike?
It fills 1/3 of the field of a 135mm lens.

[RB (Andrew)]

Wow how cool is that jj !
Beautiful shot.
These Lovejoy comets are always good value.

Merry Christmas.

RB

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Beautiful jjj

[astronobob (Bob)]

Check that De-Tail jj.. Thats magic right there

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

What camera lenses do you have Mike?
It fills 1/3 of the field of a 135mm lens.

Hmmm? yes, that's the problem ...I do have a Pentax 200mm F2.5 I haven't brought out since 2006...maybe I resurrect it The FOV of the AG12 with the small H694 chip will likely only fit the coma and a short bit of the inner tail, if I put the big ProLine back back on, with its 1.8deg X 1.8deg FOV it would likely make a great shot...but I'm lazy, too much work for one field ....so maybe I just sit back and enjoy what those like you are dishing up JJJ great stuff

Mike