Comet Q2 Lovejoy Spectacular Tail

[plantnerd]

I took these images last night before moonrise at 9PM and between clouds. The second one has comet and star stacking and more extreme photoshopping to show detail in the tail better.

Taken from the Gold Coast Hinterland using Olympus OMD EM1 and Zuiko Digital 150mm f2.0 lens on IOptron Skytracker mount. 11x30 second exposures ISO1600 + 10 darks stacking in DeepSkyStacker, processing in Neatimage and Photoshop.

[rustigsmed]

very nice Luis,

cheers

russ

[niko]

lovely image

[cometcatcher]

Beautiful images Luis.

[glenc]

Thanks Luis. The comet's tail is about 3.7 degrees long in that splendid image.

[batema]

Lovely photo Luis.

Mark.

[plantnerd]

Thanks for the tail length estimate Glen I have uploaded a higher resolution version to Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/plantnerd/16047938790/

I also had the image plate solved by the Astrometry.net group on Flickr here are the results:

Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
(RA, Dec) center: (63.4381378733, -1.07466743002) degrees
Orientation: 4.19581075136 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 11.8117820473 arcsec/pixel

Your field contains:
NGC 1568
NGC 1541
NGC 1552
ξ Eri
35Eri
NGC 1507

[algwat]

Nice images and with the bit of extra processing for de-tail , works.

kind regards, Alan

[astronobob]

Grouse result Luis :thumbsup:

[Regulus]

Very nice image Luis with nice detail.

[glenc]

Lovejoy is on the left of Aldebaran at 10pm DST tonight, it forms a rough equilateral triangle with M45.

[plantnerd]

A pity it is total thick cloud cover 24 hours a day here

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Luis.

The tail is very long.

Ross.

[multiweb]

Cool. Looks like an afterburner. :thumbsup: