Another Comet Lulin at 1200mm

Hagar (Doug) · #1 28-02-2009, 02:53 PM

Two images of Lulin taken with QHY8 and Vixen VC200L at f6.4.
10 X 2min exposures and second image of 10 X 5 min exposures.

This was the only chance to image it due to bush fire smoke. There was still some smoke but I had to grab the only real chance I had.

tornado33 · #2 28-02-2009, 03:02 PM

Excellent. Were you actually guiding on the comet? I ask as the central condensation is nice and sharp for such high magnification.
Scott

Tilt (Michael) · #3 28-02-2009, 03:04 PM

Doug, well done, these are great images. I just love the QHY8 + VC200L combo!

Michael

h0ughy (David) · #4 28-02-2009, 03:13 PM

nice work Doug. I fear i am really going to miss this comet, the weather is hopeless here

anthony.tony · #5 28-02-2009, 03:23 PM

Nice Shot

RB (Andrew) · #6 28-02-2009, 03:25 PM

Beautiful shots Doug !
Love the images scale.

Kevnool (Kev) · #7 28-02-2009, 03:34 PM

Wheres this little fella going in a hurry.
Fantastic job Doug.
Cheers Kev.

Hagar (Doug) · #8 28-02-2009, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tornado33

Excellent. Were you actually guiding on the comet? I ask as the central condensation is nice and sharp for such high magnification.
Scott

I was guiding on the comet core. I was using a qhy5 and ED 80 as my guiding platform with PHD. I had to guide at 3 second exposures to get enough image in the core to allow for reasonable guiding.

Thanks everyone for the comments.

Something diferent for me trying to image something moving so fast. I had no real idea wheather I would be able to get a reasonable image out of the subs taken although each sub looked quite good. Stacking was done manually after each shot was lightly stretched in CS3 to give me some detail in the core to stack on.

Quark (Trevor) · #9 28-02-2009, 06:41 PM

Well done Doug,
Glad you got the opportunity to image it.

Regards
Trevor

prokyon (Werner Probst) · #10 01-03-2009, 06:12 AM

Hi Doug,

I`m fascinated by the colors. Great work!

Garyh · #11 01-03-2009, 06:55 AM

Nicely done at a decent FL!

AlexN · #12 01-03-2009, 04:29 PM

Looks great so up close and personal Doug!

Fantastic work.

Alex.

spearo (Frank) · #13 01-03-2009, 09:30 PM

very well done indeed!
So Mount in normal sidereal tracking but PHD guiding on the comet core right?
in case i get a chance next weekend...this weekend was clouded out for me
frank

Jeffkop (Jeff) · #14 04-03-2009, 07:18 AM

Hmmm ... is that the cottonbud comet ?????

Nice pictures Doug

Octane (Humayun) · #15 04-03-2009, 06:02 PM

Doug,

Congrats on a couple of lovely images.

I think the second one might have been stretched a little bit too far, so, for me, the first one's a winner.

Regards,
Humayun