C/2007 W1 (Boattini) May 8th

[peeb61]

Hi,
Took this image of C/2007 W1 (Boattini) tonight (08/05/2008).
It's a 10min exposure at 1600iso taken with Canon EOS 350d Prime focus with my skywatcher 102mm, piggybacked on my 10"LX200gps and autoguided with a DSI. I used a 2" Broadband skyglow filter.

Processing was brightness/contrast adjustment, I used Noiseware and cropped the image.

Just below the comet to the left there is a faint galaxy. (Lots in this area so at this stage I cannot identify.)

Boy this comet is getting bright!!!

Paul

[h0ughy]

great image Paul

[iceman]

Nice one Paul. Are you guiding?
10 mins looks too logn for the comet now, you can see it's a horizontal line now instead of a point.

You should really reduce your exposures to 3-5 minutes and do more of them to stack.

[edwardsdj]

Nice image Paul. I'd be thrilled to capture this comet.

[rogerg]

Nice image overall. I agree with Mike that the exposure time would be better dropped. I've been doing 30 and 60 second exposures with this comet, but that's CCD so quite different, still, I'd expect surely 3 min would get the comet well and you'd probably end up without nucleus trailing.

Colour looks very blue but perhaps that's correct, I wouldn't know. And slight edge distortion which is a shame, but ya get that :)

As I said, overall looks nice :thumbsup:

[peeb61]

Thanks again everyone for your words of wisdom.

I posted this image from my observatory, it was the first image of the night.

One of my aims was to try and push the boundries as much as I can, with contrast and colour against the background stars and trying to capture some of the many faint galaxies along with this comet. (I got one at least)

I did however manage to capture 10x3 minute exposures during the course of the night. by the time I'd finished it was fairly late and being a work night had to 'hit the sack' and leave the processing and stacking for another time.

We will see how they turn out.

Paul

[Ric]

Very bright indeed Paul, a lovely capture. I njoyed that little galaxy as well.

Cheers

[Alchemy]

good to see another comet, particularly a slowish one. hope it puts on a show, have to have a squiz. the last one Holmes was too low from my location :sadeyes:

[rogerg]

Pushing the boundaries, good stuff :thumbsup: what I like to hear :) The 10 min exposures make sense then, all adds up now :)

[peeb61]

I think I've managed to identify that little or not so little galaxy.

Object name: NGC 3233 Magnitude:12.6 Size:1.8'x0.9' Position angle:140°

Now thats pushing it!

Paul

[Matty P]

Great image Paul, I would be very happy with that.

I really like how you were able to capture a faint galaxy as well.

Well done.