Comet Lemmon with a beautiful tail (now with animation)

[originaltrilogy (Petr)]

Is that using sidereal rate?

[astronobob (Bob)]

Top Class !

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Thank you everyone, I really appreciate all your comments.
I have now completed an animation of the comet's movement across the sky. This is using data I took on 27th January through a clear filter:

HD video is here

Originally Posted by originaltrilogy

How do you make you mount move at comet speed?

I didn't track the comet itself, instead the image was made by aligning all the frames on the comet nucleus to get a detailed image of the comet, and then doing another separate alignment on the stars. These two stacks are then combined.

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Cool video Rolf thanks for sharing and great technique too! Well done

[gaa_ian (Ian)]

Great animation Rolf. I took the time to check out your website. Looks great ! I particularly enjoyed your space art

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Lovely image Rolf, and a great animation! Really shows how fast the comet is moving.

Cheers,
Stephen

[jsmoraes (Jorge)]

Thanks for your clue to process with two images. One aligned by stars and other by comet. I worked with DSS and I was successful.
It seems to be better than the automatic processing (simultaneous alignment of stars and comet) done by DSS.

Every day is day to learn something more !

[naskies (Dave)]

That's amazing, Rolf! Still the favourite of all the Lemmon images I've seen posted so far.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Originally Posted by gaa_ian

Great animation Rolf. I took the time to check out your website. Looks great ! I particularly enjoyed your space art

Thank you Ian, and thanks for loooking It's been quite a while since I' did any space art, but I'd love to get back into it - if I could only find the time...

Originally Posted by StephenM

Lovely image Rolf, and a great animation! Really shows how fast the comet is moving.

Cheers,
Stephen

Thanks Stephen, I'm glad you liked the animation. I'm working on another animation at the moment (not of the comet though). Still not finished so I'll have ot wait and see how it turns out.

Originally Posted by jsmoraes

Thanks for your clue to process with two images. One aligned by stars and other by comet. I worked with DSS and I was successful.
It seems to be better than the automatic processing (simultaneous alignment of stars and comet) done by DSS.

Every day is day to learn something more !

Thank you Jorge, good to hear you found it useful. It's always fun to try out new processing techniques.

Originally Posted by naskies

That's amazing, Rolf! Still the favourite of all the Lemmon images I've seen posted so far.

Thank you Dave, I'm glad I was able to tease out the tail at such an early stage. Lately the comet has become a lot brighter and there are some really spectacular images around now, it's been great to follow everyone's endeavours so far.

[scopemankit (Chris)]

An awesome image!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Gorgeous close up Rolf. I can appreciate the work in trying to figure out how to process that.

[elfinke (Trev)]

Jaw dropping image. And the animation brought a big grin to my face too. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

I also had to do with around 4 hours of sleep for 3 days in a row to get the best possible data. And once I got the good data on 28th I stayed up late again because I just had to process it

Isn't this what it's all about..ahhhh yeh

Great shot of a Lemmon Rolf, really vibrant and very cool

Prediction...this will be a Solar System finalist in APOTY 2013

Mike

[Quark (Trevor)]

Beautiful, a spectacular image Rolf.

Cheers
Trevor