[Mickoid (Michael)]

Set up early on Tuesday night and got another chance at Panstarrs before the moon came up. This is now heading toward the sun so sits in the western part of the sky, which from my location, competes with Melbourne's light dome. I had all sorts of issues with gradients with this one, exasperated by not shooting Flats and not using a Coma Corrector as I was set up for Planetary for later on. This is nearly 15mins of integration and the comet nucleus shows some elongation due to its movement over that time. I shot this with an 8 inch Newt and a Canon 550d, 20 second exposures at 1600 iso. Using the same scope, I had the ASI 224mc for Jupiter once it had climbed high enough above my roofline to shoot. Seeing was mostly poor with fleeting moments of better seeing, just as a tease.