Wide field Lovejoy, EDIT now with Pleiades

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G'day

Here is my attempt at capturing Lovejoy before it disappears north, also with some dust in the region. I was surprised at how long the tail is, for comparison the FOV is 10x15 degrees.

32x 5 minute subs with my trusty old 350D and 85mm lens.

Check out larger size Here. (http://astrob.in/148994/0/)

Thanks for looking,

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher]

Awesome shot Jo! :thumbsup: The old 350D is still working strong.

[rustigsmed]

yes, that is awesome!
how did you stack those Jo?

Rusty

[Tony_]

Great shot Jo! Sure is a long tail.
It's heading too far North for us Southerners soon.

Tony.

[gregbradley]

Amazing. That is a very beautiful image. How did you stack the images from over 2.7 hours? One aligned on the comet and one aligned on the stars and then layer them in?

Greg.

[nebulosity.]

Thanks Kevin, now that I've got the cooler working it has surprised me.



Thanks Rusty! Reply down below.



Yeah only a few days left for me also, it's been good though :thumbsup: the brightest comet so far I have seen.



Thanks a lot Greg, really glad you liked it.

Re stacking, I never seem to have any success with trying to remove trailed stars out of my images so for this one I used the 'Heal' function in StarTools to remove the stars from 10 subs before stacking. This resulted in a nice starless comet image that I layered on the background.

It took a fair while, but I guess all comet pics do.

Cheers
Jo

[IanP]

Awesome Jo
:thumbsup:

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I had an idea of seeing if my comet pic field overlapped with a Pleiades shot I did a few weeks ago and it happens that it does, I'm stoked!

Larger size Here. (http://astrob.in/149282/B/)

Cheers
Jo

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Thanks Ian.

[multiweb]

+1 Awesome shot. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: Lot of work but well worth the effort.

[Placidus]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[rmuhlack]

Sensational!

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Thank you Marc, Mike and Richard. Glad you liked it. :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[graham.hobart]

Jo, you are a legend!!
So beautiful- that must be a calendar shot for next year?
Well done.
Graz:eyepop:

[Leonardo70]

Wonderful Jo. Congrats.

All the best,
Leo

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Thanks a lot Graham and Leonardo! :thumbsup:

Cheers
Jo

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Jo.

Love the composition.

Ross.

[RickS]

Great shot, Jo!

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Thank you Rick and Ross!

Cheers
Jo