Rapidly moving North-West, I though I'd give this a last go from my home location in the suburbs (2 EV under my dark sky effort 27/12/2014 which was 60 sec at 1600 ISO). I've had to push the processing to get a hint of tail but at the expense of high noise and some DSS stacking artefacts (coma on bright stars) DeepSkyStacker (DSS) 3.3.4 Stacked 100% of 17 Images in Stars+Comet mode, ISO 800 @ 30 Sec, 121 DARK @ 120 Sec, 30 BIAS, 17 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 and Noise Ninja Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with PowerNewt(ASA) f/2.84 Reducer/Coma Corrector, No LPS filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 90' x 134' , Ambient 22-21C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
This was just a quick snap to see if I could pick up this comet that suddenly brightened late in its journey around The Sun. At 11 degrees above the western horizon with a young Moon in the sky it was unlikely to be spectacular. The comet with two tails at 12 O'clock and 3 O'clock is just visible in the lower mid left around the equilateral triangle point with Venus and Jupiter, the brightest objects in this field. Canon 600D 1ith Canon 18-200mm IS lens on tripod - 10Sec, ISO 1600, F/5.6 @ 90mm on fixed camera tripod
Imaged at Perth Observatory Pentax SMC Takumar 200mm f/4, 37mm stop ring to f/5.4, M42/EOS adapter, No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 381' x 254' , Ambient ~18C. SkyWatcher Star Adventurer EQ mount unguided sidereal drive. DeepSkyStacker 4.4.1 Stacked 75% (6) of 9 Images ISO 1600 @ 30 Sec, 98 DARK @ 120 Sec, 32 BIAS, 16 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018
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