now i am happy - have seen a lemmon!!

[h0ughy]

wow the first clear night in ??????????????? saw my first Lemmon for the year. I honestly thought i was going to miss this one

i have about an hours worth of images to stack. post that sometime later:question:

this was just a quick 30sec grab to find it and used the 60D so that the colour was right on the 127ED

[ourkind]

Nice one David! :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

thanks Carlos. now i have to work out how i ca stack what i have?

[StephenM]

Glad you got some clear skies David! Looking forward to seeing the stacked version.

Cheers,
Stephen

[SkyViking]

Nice catch, looking forward to seeing the final result. It's a great comet isn't it!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Glad you finally got it David!

Must be frustrating with so much cloud down the eastern states.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Steffen]

We had not such a bad night last night in the Sydney suburbs. I've been tracking Lemmon for bit, I think. It's that huge black thing with lots of little holes in it, right? No wait, that's the damn wall of trees in my neighbour's backyard, that's obscuring my entire south sky… :mad2:

On a completely unrelated and hypothetical question: how powerful would a laser pointer have to be to accidentally cut down a tree? :P

Cheers
Steffen.

[h0ughy]

reading up onthe stacking proceedures in DSS

its a beautiful colour thats for sure. i just admire some of the other imagers showing a tail and apreciate the work that went into the image creation

its driving me troppo. i was watching the formation of more clouds last night but they stayed out to sea


trim a square hole in the leaves:rofl:

[gregbradley]

That's a good shot Houghy. Its really quite bright. I think I might give that a go to with a DSLR and Polarie. Perhaps a longer lens and try to get the tail. A DSLR shot may be veyr good for this as you could get the extended tail which is very long and quite faint. It might require dark skies though.

I'll have to try out DSS. I used to use Images Plus ages ago but it needs updating.

Greg.

[Larryp]

Nice image, David!

[h0ughy]

this is harder than it looks - learning DSS and how it works for stacking comets - this is the first version

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Hi David,

I presume your trying to stack so both the comet and the stars so they are sharp, ( Not trailed.)?

If so, you need to import your files lights dark frames etc, I use tiffs.

Check all images.
Then register light frames. make sure to deslect auto stacking before registering.
Then click on the first light frame, when it's up a panel will come up on the right side of the image.
Select comet, drag the cursor of the comet holding down the shift key as you do it. If you don't do this it will stack on stars only.
Do this for all light frames then stack.
You may end up with artifacts to clean up like false colours in the centre of bright stars and the comet.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Justin.

[h0ughy]

well thats a phone a friend answer:rofl: thanks very much Justin, will try that tonight

[alan meehan]

Hi Dave
nice shot my friend ,we bagged a comet well done ,now you can spend some time trying to process the beast,got him myself last night just got to process it .myself .the 60d takes a nice natural shot ,why didnt i think of that
AL

[allan gould]

Nice image David. I've tried on two successive nights with binoculars but nothing due to light pollution.
Allan

[Ross G]

Nice capture David.

Ross.