tilbrook@rbe.ne
11-05-2013, 08:05 AM
Hi,
I know, you probably don't want to suck on another Lemmon!
But I had to follow it up, and this morning was the first opportunity. I only had 15 minutes before cloud rolled in and I was lucky to capture it.
Visible through my 80mm finder, it's around mag 6.5 with a short broad tail visible.
In the image, it's sporting a nice dust tail and ion tail, the later being 42 arc minutes long. It's probably longer but it's low in the sky so long exposures were out.
It also seems to have had another tail disconnection event, that's three I have imaged.
Anyway it's nice to see it's still green and performing well.
Equipment.
8" Newtonian astrograph f/4. on HEQ pro 5 mount. Orion mini guider.
Unmodded canon 1100D, baader coma corrector, cooler box.
9 x 1 minute subs, ISO 3200 stacked in DSS, processed in PS7.
Cheers,
Justin.
I know, you probably don't want to suck on another Lemmon!
But I had to follow it up, and this morning was the first opportunity. I only had 15 minutes before cloud rolled in and I was lucky to capture it.
Visible through my 80mm finder, it's around mag 6.5 with a short broad tail visible.
In the image, it's sporting a nice dust tail and ion tail, the later being 42 arc minutes long. It's probably longer but it's low in the sky so long exposures were out.
It also seems to have had another tail disconnection event, that's three I have imaged.
Anyway it's nice to see it's still green and performing well.
Equipment.
8" Newtonian astrograph f/4. on HEQ pro 5 mount. Orion mini guider.
Unmodded canon 1100D, baader coma corrector, cooler box.
9 x 1 minute subs, ISO 3200 stacked in DSS, processed in PS7.
Cheers,
Justin.