managed a first glimpse of Pons-Brooks from Melbourne last night.
Unfortunately, from my vantage point, its locations seems to coincide with just about every flight into and out of Melb airport
so it was a little challenging to process (had to remove half of my subs)!
This is 170 x 10 second subs on the RASA 8 with ASI 183MC, processed in APP. I have not tried to remove star trails at this stage.
https://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/...1&d=1714950282
As I had to idea what to expect, and very little time to prepare, I have chopped off part of the ion tail (sigh) and rather over-exposed the core. The good new though is that it appears to be quite slow moving and so no guiding was required, just mount tracking.
Hopefully there will be a nice window in coming weeks when it is high enough in the sky but still bright enough for imaging..
cheers, Jon