C/2013 V5 Oukaimeden

[tel.lekatsas]

Comet Oukaimeden looking great but getting hard to image in the twilight and with the crescent moon in the way. This is a quick process of tonight's imaging run. LRGB 180:60:60:60 L bin 1 RGB bin 2. QHY9 ED120. From Kingaroy, QLD.

[cometcatcher]

Beautiful shot Tel. I like that one a lot.

[algwat]

Again you guys are doing good work on getting the long tail.
Do I see some red color in it? might be my screen, but thats interesting.

kind regards, Alan

[peeb61]

Nice one Tel!

[anthony.tony]

nice detail - Tony

[lepton3]

Maybe the best image of this comet I've seen so far.

Awesome.

-Ivan

[Poita]

Is it visible from down south?

[cometcatcher]

This is for my latitude but it may help. Don't expect it to be bright. It's just a little fuzz ball visually.

[tel.lekatsas]

Thanks Kevin, much appreciated. I've been following your comet posts for quite a while and have been excited by your images of 2013 V5 and 2012 K1. Thanks for the inspiration.



Alan, I think the red is an artifact of the imaging process (RGB align on stars, then RGB align on comet, then superimpose and try to avoid fringing). I have a better repro on Astrobin that shows the colour of the comet more accurately. http://www.astrobin.com/124911/0/







Thanks guys



Probably, but very low in the sky. It's about 15-20 degrees above the horizon at sunset at my latitude.



I couldn't see it visually. Too hard to image now and details are getting washed out.

Cheers,
Tel