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Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
johnfosteruk replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
A few more snaps from Plymouth, including a bit more pixel wrangling and cropping of the first one I posted. -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
johnfosteruk replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
I stacked a few of the images in the sequence I posted from this morning which gave me a little more detail. No blue tail tho. -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
johnfosteruk replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
I didn't have a chance from home, My northern horizon consists of a 12 foot wall mainly so I travelled to the field at the top of the hill. I will be making a return trip for sure -
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
johnfosteruk replied to verreli's topic in Observing - Widefield, Special Events and Comets
Gee whiz it's a corker isn't it!!! I've had a few quick looks through binoculars but tonight I set everything up and had a good session. The moon rising behind me, 3 nice ISS passes as well and lovely clear skies to the north. Even with the light pollution over the city I had lovely naked eye views once I found a good spot away from the streetlights. No noctilucent clouds though. Lots of image data to process but here's a quick one straight off the memory card, shot at 50mm. Just a little noise reduction and contrast added. Very nice.- 674 replies
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Outstanding image, well done
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I took the camera and tripod out on my evening walk. The ISS pass was a beauty, passing under Regulus and the Moon but no sign of the Dragon. I reckon it was lost down in the Mirk shown in the 2nd image.
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Here's a fun thing - Docking simulator https://iss-sim.spacex.com
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Incredible isn't it, I don't think I'd even heard of SpaceX on the day they shut down the Shuttle Program and now just 9 years later they have their amazing testing regime which has produced one of the most efficient and safest lift systems on the planet - incredible.
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According to Heaven's above, yes.
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Yep - 10:14 for me in Plymouth
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I grabbed 150 frames last night with reasonably good seeing, and stacked 50 of them. The usual process with Pipp>AS!3>IMPPG>Photoshop.
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50 frames with the Tamron @ 500mm, my usual process for stacking - Pipp>AS!3>IMPPG>Photoshop. Worth clicking through for full size I think. RGB And a Mono version with a little extra contrast
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I had an idea to do a composite of the Moon with earthshine. A sort of HDR(ish) image showing both the detail in the illuminated side as well as the earthshine (I've tried it before with varying degrees of success) Using the HDR tools in various software has never worked so I set up the Tamron and took 7 images (the longest being a long enough exposure to show Asellus Borealis and some other local stars in Cancer), with a view to manually blending the layers in Photoshop and painting in the detail in the illuminated side. Afterwards I realised that I'd missed an opportunity to capture the Moon and M44 just 1.5° below it, I wish I'd thought of that before I framed and captured the data! It's too late now as the Moon is below my West garden wall. Anyhoo, enough of my blethering, here's the moon, in Cancer.
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Flipping autocorrect. I’ve changed it so now you look silly 😜