Comet McNaught is battling valiantly against the moonlight and distance, but in just a few days we'll start to get darker skies after sunset and I'm sure the comet has a few more surprises left (twists in the 'tail'?)
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Reviewing the last couple of weeks, it seemed that all we'd seen was the stunning excellence exhibited by IISers in the sticky "Images" thread. There must be room for the failures too. Yin & yang. So I went through my shots, which incidentally range from mediocre to appallingly bad.
I'm sure that most people have 'the image from hell', the shocker you forgot to delete, or the one you over-processed to within an inch of its life
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My best was taken 22 Jan, the first day the clouds lifted here, with Fuji Finepix S5500, 3-sec exposure. The worst was taken at the same time, with NexImage through 4.5" f8 reflector. The AVI was full of lines & other noise (hot chip), with almost no contrast. When I ran it through Registax, I didn't even bother with the wavelets, left it as it was! And what about the purple colour?! So sixties......
So please add your best & worst, and don't leave me sitting like a shag on a rock....
Cheers -