Comet Brewington 154/P
Taken by Chris Schur on December 28, 2013 @
Payson, Az
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Date Taken: 2013:12:30 14:53:41
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Yesterdays posting of this comet did not come out as well as I liked, turns out a red light was on "somewhere" during the exposures and I had to remove all the red from the image resulting in an interesting but a less than perfect result. I found the offending light last night after an hour of searching! It was the neon lamp on my electric blanket that i keep the laptop warm with, hiding behind the computer desk. Without delay, I set up and reshot the comet, with one of the longest integration times on any comet Ive done in a long time - 90 minutes. The tracking was perfect, focus spot on, and no red glows. Ive spent this morning producing two versions from the data, one with the conventional trailed stars and tracked comet, and the second version both stationary - with both the comet and stars both auto aligned with the very first frame for reference. I am much more excited with these results! The sharp stars shot is very deep indeed, I have
dozens of 18th and 19th magnitude galaxies all over the background, and stars go down to mag 20 or so. The comet shows a very nice teal color too. Not bad for an 11th mag comet, ay?
So here are the images:
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