Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) - 01-07-15
Taken by Mike Broussard on January 7, 2015 @ Maurice, Louisiana, USA
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C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on Jan 7, 2015, 02:53 UT (Jan 6, 8:53 PM CST.) 16x120 sec @ ISO 800 and 50x45 sec @ ISO 1600, TV-85 at F/5.6, Canon T3 DSLR. Poor transparency and intermittent clouds this night, but still clear enough to image. Hoping it gets better when the moon gets out the way.
Photographer's website:
http://blog.cajunastro.com
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Beautiful image of the Comet Lovejoy Mike!

I have much less in the photographic equipment than you so I admire all the work and your efforts that go into an image like this. I was merely trying quick tracking last night with a Sony NEX5 piggybacked onto a Celestron Nexstar 5i Cassegrain and an old Pentax 135mm lens adapted to the newer Sony digital camera with exposures at 80 ~90 seconds tracked under light light fog and moonlight, but have not performed all post processing yet like focus stacking, to do later. I would love to hear more about your methods, as I see you are apparently using longer exposures with the telescope tracking the comet against the backdrop of stars trailing. I could even shoot through a my 10 inch Dobsonian with crude hand tracking to make use of the Dobs great light gathering capacity.

May I ask if you post more info in your personal site, or can you indicate the tracking program that compensates the comets motion against the background stars, that shows the apparent star trails in the backdrop, if my question makes sense.

Thanks for any further info,

Best regards,

Mark Seibold, Retired Artist-Astronomr-Astronomy Community Contributor & Teacher, Portland/Sandy Oregon
Posted by markseibold 2015-01-07 12:49:34
 
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