C-2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) from last Thursday

[Stefan Buda]

While waiting for the Moon to set I took a 5 minute exposure of Q2 with my 132/330 Companar. It took heavy processing to reveal a bit of a tail.
This is the full frame of about 3x4 degrees with a QHY8.

[John K]

That came out great Stefan.

And it looks like it does have a very small tail after all!

John K.

[cometcatcher]

Nice one. You have some background nebula also.

[algwat]

A good size FOV. That will be good as the comet gets higher.
Was that a single frame image??

kind regards, Alan

[Stefan Buda]

Thanks for the comments.

John,

I'm not surprised that we could not see the tail visually with the 16" - it was very faint, to the extent that I had to slap a histogram equalisation on it.

Kevin,

Yes, there is some h-alpha emission in there but I haven't tried to identify it.

Alan,

Yes, it was a single 300 sec exposure. I made this astrograph specially for imaging comets.