Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy with trusty old Epsilon 160

[Phil Hart]

Enjoying a couple of days and late nights at home after Christmas.. a rare treat for me in more ways than one!

Tried this comet with a 300mm lens on Boxing Day but this is the better focal length/field of view combination.

Full res on SmugMug

2014-12-27 1445 UT
Takahashi Epsilon 160 530mm f3.3
CDS-5DIII (Central DS modified Canon 5D Mark III)
A sequence of five exposures of 2 mins each at ISO2500 used to create this image, using Adobe After Effects, PixInsight and Lightroom.

Phil

[tel.lekatsas (Tel)]

Wow Phil, that's a stunning image. I was hoping to have a go at this with my 300mm lens when the weather improves, what sort of issues did you have at 300mm?

[algwat (Alan)]

Excellent as always, Phil. rgds, Alan

[John K]

nice going Phil!

[PeterEde (Peter)]

Very nice shot

[Solitarian]

Damn, that's a top image.
Brilliantly presented , love the crisp look of the starfield as well as the comet's tail

[Phil Hart]

Originally Posted by tel.lekatsas

Wow Phil, that's a stunning image. I was hoping to have a go at this with my 300mm lens when the weather improves, what sort of issues did you have at 300mm?

I haven't actually processed the 300mm images yet. They look fine, just that the image scale is more impressive at 530mm and the f3.3 focal ratio helped a bit too. Mind you, I reckon the tail was brighter and more structured for this image too. Tail is now big enough to easily fill a 300mm frame if you can push it hard.

Originally Posted by algwat

Excellent as always, Phil. rgds, Alan

Originally Posted by John K

nice going Phil!

Originally Posted by Solitarian

Damn, that's a top image.
Brilliantly presented , love the crisp look of the starfield as well as the comet's tail

Originally Posted by PeterEde

Very nice shot

Thanks Alan, John, Solitarian, Peter!

[multiweb (Marc)]

This is really beautiful. One of the best I've seen.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Very beautiful image!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Great image Phil!

Nice to see more tail.

Cheers,

Justin.

[CometGuy]

As I already mentioned on fb this is a ripper of image.

[Exfso (Peter)]

Superb image.