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C/2014 E2 Jacques meets IC 1805

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Already more than a week past by since comet Jacques met IC 1805 in the morning hours of August 20th. But because not before yesterday night I was able to capture the last lightframes of the nebula, for sure I am pretty much the last one to show this conjunction.

The number of glitches this time was extraordinary high. At first the optics had been miscollimated because short before I disassembled the OTA for cleaning the primary - when using a fast telescope, of course this means that the outer parts of the images getting awful and partly just useless. Next night, because of clouds I was able to collect Ha-lights for only 2.5hrs - by far not enough when using an uncooled DSRL. After the third night I discovered that all [OIII]-lights captured had been for the trash can because of dewed optics. Several nights, always before a long working day, I needed to get up at 2 am because before this region was unreachable behind some high trees in this direction. 

What to say? When looking back it was fun and all these experiences now belong to this image! It makes it even more valuable personally for me. Occasionally I even didn't want to watch at the half-finished picture anymore. And now I feel very happy, because so far, this is my best result in astrophotography - despite all the trouble and (counting the hours of collected lights) sparse material to start image-processing with. And because of this I overlook all the little defects from which I know that they are in this final result and feel happy for being able to make something beautiful out of something 'hideous' wink.gif

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Here you can find the fullsize picture together with some acquisition-data:

http://www.astrobin.com/116686/B/

Have fun!

Daniel

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Thank you everybody for your kind words! Reading this all is a great motivation for further developing... and for continuing to show some of my results here :)

Jannis. Unfortunately I feel unable to describe the process in english, it is not my mother tongue. But you can get an already pretty good idea by reading the pdf-tutorial in Uranium235's reply to this thread: http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/224120-ngc-896-and-comet-c2014-e2-jacques/ 

Basicially this is my starting point too and I only tweaked this process a little bit for my needs and programs I used (Nebulosity for stacking).

Daniel

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