Morning Comet C/2012 V2 (LINEAR)

[cometcatcher]

Nice little comet in the eastern pre-dawn morning sky at the moment C/2012 V2 (LINEAR). The BAA comet section puts it at magnitude 9 so should be in range of small-ish scopes.

This image is 28 minutes worth (14x2 minute subs ISO 400) through a 5 inch f5 achro SW120 refractor, no filters, unmodified Pentax K-x around 5am.

Visibility should improve as the comet heads south and climbs a bit higher.

[Quark]

Nicely done Kevin, will keep an eye out for it.

Regards
Trevor

[MortonH]

Lovely shot.

[Lee]

Nice shot! It's got a nice colour and coma too.....

[stardust steve]

Great work Kevin. Thanks for the info and the heads up.
I will be giving this a try this weekend under some darker skies:thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Trevor, Morton, Lee and Steve.

Anyone by chance know of a good program to track and stack on moving comets? Registax crashes with 12mp pics and doing it manually in Photoshop with tired eyes is tedious.

[mithrandir]

Kevin, using what I've got, I'd try Nebulosity to do the star align and then stack the aligned frames.
AutoPano would do it too, but that's quite a few dollars.

[cometcatcher]

Thanks Andrew.

[lepton3]

Nice work Kevin.

-Ivan