Hi Folks,
Here is my second attempt at Comet Boattini on the 12th July.
This time I went with 4 min subs at iso 800 and framed it to capture more Ion tail. Seeing was very poor and also my focus was a bit soft. But the sky was very transparent which really helped. Wanted to re-image this again with better focus and longer subs but the weather had other ideas and with the moonlight it shall be a while before dark skies let me have another go, which might be too late...
Also about 20 arc min away at about the 3 o`clock position from the nucleus I have noticed that I might have captured something else moving in the background..Could this be a Asteroid? or a almost geostationary Satellite? Anyone have any ideas?
Co-ordinates are roughly around RA 3:13:2 DEC 7:29 for the comet that night...
Each Image had DFs and Flats subtracted in DSS and all other layering and processing was done in PS. Pushed fairly hard to show the tail off!
Came up quiet nicely considering the poor seeing...
Thanks for looking.
CS Gary