Comet resurrection

[kosborn]

The recent post of C/2016 M1 PANSTARRS by Mike and Trish inspired me to dredge up some data I had collected previously. I tried the same target two weeks ago and didn't like what I saw so assigned it to the digital graveyard of my external hard disk. After exhuming the corpse yesterday I started to wonder if I should try some RGB resuscitation to see if I could get a pulse. And so like Lazarus arisen from the dead - or perhaps more like Frankenstein's monster assembled and animated from dead parts - here is my Frankencomet. The coma is a bit smeared and there is background artefact from my registration attempt but after reprocessing, in the end it wasn't as grotesque and misshapen as I remembered. A higher resolution version is on astrobin. (https://www.astrobin.com/full/358072/0/?nc=user) This was 60 second exposures, 15x each of R, G and B.


Kevin

[Placidus]

Excellent! You've not only got colour, you've gotten 15 minutes worth of data, and you've registered on the comet instead of the stars.

[kosborn]

Thanks Mike&Trish. In September 21P/Giacobini-Zinner will be 7th mag which should be less of a challenge for my Esprit. Might try again then...

[multiweb]

+1 Nicely done. :thumbsup:

[kosborn]

Thanks Marc. I'm glad I resurrected it!

[RickS]

It was worth the effort, Kevin :thumbsup: