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First comet attempt-lovejoy
Hi all,
The clouds finally cleared for a couple of nights, so I had a go at imaging comet Lovejoy. This is my first real look at a comet, so it was exciting.
The pictures here are from my canon DSLR and 100-400 mm lens at 400mm (f/5.6). Piggybacked on my LX90. No guiding for the 1st image (couldn't find a star to guide on). It was quite a learning curve to process the image.
Within the frame is a small galaxy and globular cluster. I ran the image solver script in PI and annotated their names for interest (2nd image).
29/12/2014 image
20 x 50 sec lights
30 x 50 sec darks
30/12/2014
60 x 2min lights
30 x 2 min darks
PHD2 guiding
Processed in PixInsight and PS
I tried getting an LRGB image through the lx90, with the 0.63 reducer, but I need another go at trying to process it. Not happy with it yet.
Cheers,
Aaron
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