Comet R1 Lovejoy Nov 10

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

ISON was clouded out this morning but R1 Lovejoy was in a gap. I kept shooting 30 second exposures until the clouds rolled over. Here we have about 50 x 30 seconds at ISO 1600 through an SW120mm f5 refractor, no filters, Pentax K-x.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Nice shot of it, Kevin!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

What a beauty Kevin great shot.

Jo

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks Laurie and Jo. This may be my last pic of R1 due to the northerly declination from my setup. Every day it heads further north.

[John Hothersall]

That's a gem of a shot with the colour really strong and complete with thin tail.

John.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Thanks John. Looks like it was my only chance at getting a shot near close approach as it's cloudy tonight.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

An excellent capture Kevin.
I've got 2 nights of data on this that I still haven't processed. tsk tsk

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Good image Kevin!

What are you using to stack your frames?

Cheers,

Justin.

[h0ughy (David)]

with the weather we have i appreciate your efforts even more

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by tilbrook@rbe.ne

What are you using to stack your frames?

Hi Justin. I tried both DSS and registax with identical results. The difference being DSS is a chore to manually select each frame so I'll probably use registax in future if the nucleus is bright enough to track.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Experimenting with animation. Obviously I suck at it, but it's my first try at animating anything!

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