Morning Comet C/2012 V2 (LINEAR)

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Nice little comet in the eastern pre-dawn morning sky at the moment C/2012 V2 (LINEAR). The BAA comet section puts it at magnitude 9 so should be in range of small-ish scopes.

This image is 28 minutes worth (14x2 minute subs ISO 400) through a 5 inch f5 achro SW120 refractor, no filters, unmodified Pentax K-x around 5am.

Visibility should improve as the comet heads south and climbs a bit higher.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Nicely done Kevin, will keep an eye out for it.

Regards
Trevor

[MortonH]

Lovely shot.

[Lee]

Nice shot! It's got a nice colour and coma too.....

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Great work Kevin. Thanks for the info and the heads up.
I will be giving this a try this weekend under some darker skies

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks Trevor, Morton, Lee and Steve.

Anyone by chance know of a good program to track and stack on moving comets? Registax crashes with 12mp pics and doing it manually in Photoshop with tired eyes is tedious.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Thanks Trevor, Morton, Lee and Steve.

Anyone by chance know of a good program to track and stack on moving comets? Registax crashes with 12mp pics and doing it manually in Photoshop with tired eyes is tedious.

Kevin, using what I've got, I'd try Nebulosity to do the star align and then stack the aligned frames.
AutoPano would do it too, but that's quite a few dollars.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks Andrew.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Nice work Kevin.

-Ivan