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Originally Posted by Rod771
Wow!
Really nice shots Marc! Very smooth, well done!  |
Thanks a lot Rod.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Well done Marc. The tail detail is well defined and sharp. Like you I found processing a little different. The damn comet moves so quickly the tail smooths out too much. Like you I am looking forward to the next comet. Perhaps there will be another great comet. Its been a little while now since Terry's great comet.
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Thanks Paul. Yes I agree with you. I think the issue was that Q2 was moving a lot faster than 'average'. I PMd Damian Peach and he said he used 2min subs bin2x2 with a STL11k for the lum. He got some really cool details in the tail and even managed to mosaic it. I guess if you have a sensitive camera with low readout noise then you can get away with it.
My QHY8 is very very noisy for anything under 5min. A quality DSLR would have been more suited like what Phil Hart did. For the next comet I'm going to approach all this in a totally different way. I'll image with the FSQ still, but I will guide with a piggy backed 90mm refractor of the same FL (600mm) on the comet nucleus itself, then do 5min exposures at least and see what comes out.