Had a good night last night with 4 different targets and my first ever photographic comet was one of them.
I wasn't planning on it but as it rose above the house I figured if I aim at Procyon and to the left I might find it as I couldn't see it visually in bins or on a single sub but when I stacked it I had just got it up in the top left of picture.
At least now I know where it is so I can centre it properly and cut Procyon out if I try again.
Quite happy with that.
Taken with the 450D and dodgy 75-300mm lens at 300mm,, I forget how many but it's a heap of stacked 30 second exposures at ISO 1600, f/9.0
Great capture Jarrod I tried using the Sigma 70-300 and can confirm it's a dogey lens need f8 or 9 to get anything lightly sharp, the Sigma 50-500 apo is even worse.
Yeah I need to find an alternative lens or small scope, I could have it at f12 and it'd still be bad.
I'll keep plugging away with it until then though.
Congratulations on a very successful night Jarrod, and great pic.. am yet to catch this one as on holidays in Canada. Thought about hearing out this am, but -10 put me back in my box. :-)
Yeah I need to find an alternative lens or small scope, I could have it at f12 and it'd still be bad.
I'll keep plugging away with it until then though.
I bought a number of old manual prime lenses on ebay with adapters to attach to my Canon 40D. The most I paid for any one lens was around $45, and they're much sharper than cheap autofocus lenses.
I'm out there now photographing that exact framing!
need f8 or 9 to get anything lightly sharp, the Sigma 50-500 apo is even worse.
