2nd Pons-Brook 6th May

[astronobob]

Evening Astro-liano's.

A more favourable set of subs from the evening, actually a shame I didn't think to shoot in Raw :rolleyes:

Anyway, these 11 subs were 15 secs @ ISO 3200, Star Tracker, 135mm F2 on the 6DII,, 100% Pixel Crop...

Ive pushed the contrast locally around the tail which has exposed better some filament or streaming structure, happy with that considering only a 135mm F/L.

It will be interesting as this comet climbs into slightly darker sky but a conflicting waxing crescent moon joins the party,, Ooops, getting ahead too much, need to shoot the clouds 1st :P

[leon]

As like the first Bob, another excellent image, well done.

Leon

[Retrograde]

Nice work, Bob! :thumbsup:

[Dave882]

Another wonderful shot. Wow!!

[John W]

A really nice image of the comet Bob - well done.

Regards, John W.

[astronobob]

Thanx once again Leon, David, also Pete and Jon for kind comments.
I wonder how it will change while its been rather overcast and cloud persisting for a while yet,, time will tell,,,
HavaGoodN

[Stefan Buda]

That's impressive considering the conditions and the focal length.

How do you "freeze" the stars? I always get horrible results with DSS comet+stars stacking.

[JA]

@Stefan, I think it may have something to do with how DSS is stacking (possibly erroneously?). Try just stacking normally instead of using the comet options. Why do I suggest that? .... Because the difference in perceived angular velocity, albeit watching the stars v Comet track in STELLARIUM, is insignificantly different / probably the same ???, as viewed on screen in Stellarium. I'd also try Sequator for the stacking.

@Bob, love your image, especially @135mm !
...Buonissimo Astro-liano:thumbsup:

Best
JA

[Stefan Buda]

Stacking normally only works for short time-span as the comet moves significantly from one sub to another, at least in my case at 450mm focal length. In this case, at 135 focal length and several minutes time span, normal staking is probably ok. I was just wondering if any special trick was used.

[Derek Klepp]

Well done Bob considering all the clouds.Was down in Tassie hoping for an Aurora but the clouds were down there last week as well.
Cheers Derek

[astronobob]

Cheers Stefan and JA, I have not stacked images for yrs ,,, my PC died months ago and using a Laptop and only just downloaded DSS on the night of capturing this comet,, I remember back those Yrs ago stacking in comet-mode was sometimes a bit 'Hit and Miss, maybe focal length and/or comet movement.
That said I just loaded the images straight in to just see what it would produce, and DSS spat out exactly what is you see with Stars and comet aligned.