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Old 06-09-2014, 03:21 AM
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Comet Siding Spring and 47 Tucanae encounter

Hi all, I use to post on the deep sky section but this time I believe the image belongs to this section

I have also imaged the the encounter of C/2013A1 Siding Spring with 47 Tuc from my remote observatory in Coonabarabran:

Comet Siding Spring and 47 Tucanae encounter

I took several short images (2 mins) through my LRGB filters and than I properly combined the frames to get two different sets: one having only the comet (I used the comet's core as alignment reference, basically rejecting the stars using a sigma clip combining) and one having the star field with the path of the comet stretching the whole sequence. The night before I had taken some long exposures of the area to have a good quality LRGB stack of the cluster and so I sandwiched all these images together precisely aligning the comet image on the beginning of the comet path. I than removed the comet trail and got the image posted. It is not what can be called a single shot image but I am quite happy with the result

Hope you will like it
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Marco
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