View Single Post
  #8  
Old 13-03-2021, 04:49 PM
cometcatcher's Avatar
cometcatcher (Kevin)
<--- Comet Hale-Bopp

cometcatcher is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cloudy Mackay
Posts: 6,542
Quote:
Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
That's a corker Kevin. It's bright but people don't realise it's not that big. One for the cool wall

It's one of the few that can be imaged with a polarized filter rotated 90 degrees each time and mapped to RGB.
You know, I've never seen it visually! I've tried but failed. Didn't know about the polarising filter trick. I'll have to try that next time around.

Quote:
Originally Posted by strongmanmike View Post
That's excellent Kevin, colours look good It's a very cool looking object, that rarely gets imaged from down here due its low altitude. I remember hitting it in my early days of CCD'ing, with my Meade 12"SCT, was really excited to see the B&W subs come down

Mike
Thanks Mike. You will have to try it again sometime with the Newt.

Quote:
Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
That's a rare image from Oz. Wonderful sharpness and detail. Great colour. A winner.

Greg.
Thanks Greg. It's still pretty high up here in Mackay, but at a cloudy time of year to image now.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisV View Post
Excellent. Great to see this!
Thanks Chris.
Reply With Quote