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03-06-2014, 11:25 AM
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Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) June 3
It's still hanging on! Presently very close to the Helix Nebula in Aquarius for the next few days if anyone wants to take a widefield shot of them both. Now around magnitude 8.5.
This pic was 91 x 30 second subs at ISO3200, 6" F5 Newtonian, Pentax K-x.
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03-06-2014, 01:55 PM
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What time of night?
03-06-2014, 04:36 PM
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Rises at midnight (roughly) in the east, then visible until dawn. If you find the helix nebula NGC7293, it's just above it by a couple of degrees.
03-06-2014, 05:06 PM
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Awesome!
H
03-06-2014, 05:37 PM
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Thanks H. I wish I could suck out more of that tail. It's teasing me.
03-06-2014, 06:50 PM
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To see more of the tail , try to convert your data to 32bit b/w and log scale it. Then sum and adjust for contrast.
See what that looks like?
kind regards, Alan Watson.
03-06-2014, 07:52 PM
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Mmm, I exclusively post DSS process in photoshop and in 32 bit a lot of my favourite tools are missing. I'll give it a go though. But I think it has to be done at the photographing stage.
03-06-2014, 08:37 PM
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It's very noisy but it shows the tail better.
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04-06-2014, 07:13 PM
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Nice Work - Tony
04-06-2014, 11:53 PM
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Thanks Tony.
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