Wide field Lovejoy, EDIT now with Pleiades

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

G'day

Here is my attempt at capturing Lovejoy before it disappears north, also with some dust in the region. I was surprised at how long the tail is, for comparison the FOV is 10x15 degrees.

32x 5 minute subs with my trusty old 350D and 85mm lens.

Check out larger size Here.

Thanks for looking,

Cheers
Jo

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Awesome shot Jo! The old 350D is still working strong.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

yes, that is awesome!
how did you stack those Jo?

Rusty

[Tony_ (Tony)]

Great shot Jo! Sure is a long tail.
It's heading too far North for us Southerners soon.

Tony.

[gregbradley]

Amazing. That is a very beautiful image. How did you stack the images from over 2.7 hours? One aligned on the comet and one aligned on the stars and then layer them in?

Greg.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Awesome shot Jo! The old 350D is still working strong.

Thanks Kevin, now that I've got the cooler working it has surprised me.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

yes, that is awesome!
how did you stack those Jo?

Rusty

Thanks Rusty! Reply down below.

Originally Posted by Tony_

Great shot Jo! Sure is a long tail.
It's heading too far North for us Southerners soon. I'd estimate the tail to be at least 12 degrees long.

Tony.

Yeah only a few days left for me also, it's been good though the brightest comet so far I have seen.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Amazing. That is a very beautiful image. How did you stack the images from over 2.7 hours? One aligned on the comet and one aligned on the stars and then layer them in?

Greg.

Thanks a lot Greg, really glad you liked it.

Re stacking, I never seem to have any success with trying to remove trailed stars out of my images so for this one I used the 'Heal' function in StarTools to remove the stars from 10 subs before stacking. This resulted in a nice starless comet image that I layered on the background.

It took a fair while, but I guess all comet pics do.

Cheers
Jo

[IanP]

Awesome Jo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

I had an idea of seeing if my comet pic field overlapped with a Pleiades shot I did a few weeks ago and it happens that it does, I'm stoked!

Larger size Here.

Cheers
Jo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by IanP

Awesome Jo

Thanks Ian.

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 Awesome shot. Lot of work but well worth the effort.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Sensational!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

+1 Awesome shot. Lot of work but well worth the effort.

Originally Posted by Placidus

Impressive. Most impressive.

Originally Posted by rmuhlack

Sensational!

Thank you Marc, Mike and Richard. Glad you liked it.

Cheers
Jo

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Jo, you are a legend!!
So beautiful- that must be a calendar shot for next year?
Well done.
Graz

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Wonderful Jo. Congrats.

All the best,
Leo

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks a lot Graham and Leonardo!

Cheers
Jo

[Ross G]

A great looking photo Jo.

Love the composition.

Ross.

[RickS (Rick)]

Great shot, Jo!

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thank you Rick and Ross!

Cheers
Jo