Hi all,
I was stuffing around last night with the new CLS 1.25" filter on the Atik 314L+ while the moon was up.
I tried stacking these 45 x 60 sec shots with DSS using comet and stars mode, but because of the total time, the stars slide all up the page and the colour washes out, as per the attached JPEG.
So, I decided to animate this instead, showing how fast it moves across the sky. After about the 6th image, I realised I could set the guidecam to 4sec images and guide off the comet itself. Stellarium showed it as relative magnitude of 10.5, so it was impressive to be able to guide off the comet using the webcam.
The link to the 640X480 (6Mb) animation is
here
Comments and criticisms are welcome.
Cheers
Chris