Comet Lemmon what a ripper!!

[allan gould]

Excellent image and I bet that tail made you wag!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by jakob

Very nice, love the tail!
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Jacob!

Originally Posted by allan gould

Excellent image and I bet that tail made you wag!

Thanks Allan!

Yes it certainly did!!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Lester]

Cracker image Justin, thanks for the view.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Fantastic image Justin, you nailed that stacking The tail is getting brighter for sure - it'll be interesting to follow this comet over the next couple of months. Thanks for the view!

[ChrisM]

Impressive image Justin. Well done.


And to answer Mardy's query:
For up to the minute coordinates - look up the Comet / Ephemeris section on the CalSky website. I punched in the RA/Dec, and there it was!

Chris

[asimov (John)]

Extremely nice! Well done.

[astronobob (Bob)]

What a ripper that is Justin, That will be hard to Trump ! !

[peeb61 (Paul)]

Top image Justin!!
I have tried DSS in comet mode but the resulting image has a bad gradient through it.

Any ideas?

Paul

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Lester

Cracker image Justin, thanks for the view.

Thanks Lester!

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Fantastic image Justin, you nailed that stacking The tail is getting brighter for sure - it'll be interesting to follow this comet over the next couple of months. Thanks for the view!

Thanks Rolf!

Yes I was glad the stacking worked out, But I don't know why it worked this time. Other attempts gave weird stars, or would'nt stack correctly on the comet.
Just hope the next time works.

Originally Posted by ChrisM

Impressive image Justin. Well done.

And to answer Mardy's query:
For up to the minute coordinates - look up the Comet / Ephemeris section on the CalSky website. I punched in the RA/Dec, and there it was!

Chris

Thanks Chris!

Originally Posted by asimov

Extremely nice! Well done.

Thanks John!

Originally Posted by astronobob

What a ripper that is Justin, That will be hard to Trump ! !

Thanks Bob!

I'm hoping I can do it a little better, going to use the ED80 to get more tail.

Originally Posted by peeb61

Top image Justin!!
I have tried DSS in comet mode but the resulting image has a bad gradient through it.

Any ideas?

Paul

Thanks Paul,

Are you using Canon raws?
Don't know whether that may be the problem. I downloaded the beta version of DSS so I could use raw, but found that it gave a very dark background and seemed to destroy some of the faint nebulosity and colour in images.
So I went back to converting to tiffs, and seems to give a better result. Of course this is just my experience, and may have something to do with settings in DSS.

Cheers,

Justin.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

Great shot Justin.. If the wind and cloud go away I would love a try at this one. How do I locate this target? Is thier a current file for the LX200, or what site logs the position the best. Nothing worse than long exposures on nothing



Mardy

Sorry mardy for missing your question.
Thanks to Chris for the answer.
You can use this site too. http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau...areComets.html
This gives you orbital elements for most software.

Originally Posted by Astroman

Excellent image, were you tracking on the comet head or just Sidereal?

Sorry Andrew,
Missed this too!
I was using sidereal tracking.

Cheers,

Justin.

[peeb61 (Paul)]

Hi Justin,
No Canon Raws, I have been taking images of this comet with my QHY8L and this uses fits.

Paul

[stardust steve (Steve)]

That's a real beauty. I'm really hoping to achieve something similar. More practice needed
Love that big tail and beaut star background

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by stardust steve

That's a real beauty. I'm really hoping to achieve something similar. More practice needed
Love that big tail and beaut star background

Thanks Steve!

Hope you get a good run ay Lemmon.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Johno (John)]

Great work Justin, superb image.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Johno

Great work Justin, superb image.

Thanks John!

Cheers,

Justin.