Comet Catalina

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Comet Catalina
Taken by Chris Levitan on January 1, 2016 @ Seal Rock,OR

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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure Time: 300/1
Aperture: Unavailable
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2016:01:01 20:18:28

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Single 300 second shot as Catalina was converging with Arcturus

Photographer's website:

http://www.lev-images.com

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Beautiful image Chris !

I was considering posting mine but it has excessive noise, as I only use a Sony NEX 5R, equatorially rough tracking with antique lenses mamiya/sekor 55mm f/1.4 and Pentax 135mm f/2.5 from college days in 1972 and adapted to the Sony camera, mounted to piggyback on a Celestron Nexstar 5i Cassegrain.

Can you indicate your lens and equatorial tracking [telescope] ?
Your internal EXIF DATA above identifies your Canon info as:
Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure Time: 300/1
Aperture: Unavailable
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2016:01:01 20:18:28
...but I am curious as to the lens (or did you crop down) and what post processing was used?

Thanks again for posting,

Mark Seibold, artist-astronomer, Sandy/Portland Oregon

Posted by markseibold 2016-01-02 01:51:08

This is a real astronomical photos and photomontages, with no overlaps, only one exposure, other techniques are gluing of more sequences fixed on the comet before, and then on the stars: falsely real. Thanks to prove all this. GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!!!

Posted by astromazzo 2016-01-02 04:49:57

Mark this was taken with a Stellarvue SV80ED at 560mm fl on an iOptron ZEQ25GT tracking mount.I did slightly crop the image yes.I just basically edited this single RAW file in Camera Raw and resized it, watermarked it for the post. Many thanks for your kind words sir much appreciated!

Posted by LevEye 2016-01-02 19:46:14

Many thanks for the kind words Astromaxxo! I like to keep it real.Look up!

Posted by LevEye 2016-01-02 19:48:07

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