Comet 2013/R1 Lovejoy on 19th November

[ejwwest]

Quick attempt this morning - didn't have good tracking on the guider so a satck of 12 10 second exposures with Canon 40D and 400mm f5.6 zoom at ISO 1600. May try reprocessing later:

Comet 2013 R1 (Lovejoy) by ejwwest, on Flickr

ISON was too low from my location and too much twilight when it did rise.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice capture. With some darks and flats you should get a very nice image

[ejwwest]

Nice capture. With some darks and flats you should get a very nice image

I'll reprocess later with the darks I took and check out the DSS settings for comets.

[RogerTheDodger]

Just gave it a quick run through DBE in PI while I'm running a job @ work, still a bit green in the middle...

[Cygnus_X1]

Viewing conditions, at least where I live in Kent, England, were not at all good this morning. Bright moon, and a good deal of haze. But I did finally manage to get my first binocular view of comet ISON, barely visible in the haze at 06.10

Earlier, at around 01.40 I also got my first view of comet Lovejoy. Very easily visible despite the limiting magnitude being around 7 due to the moonlight and haze.

I wish the ephemerides used on Stellarium ( a great piece of software ) would finally be updated so as to show the true magnitude, as 'magnitude 8' displayed is way off and I'd estimate closer to magnitude 5.

[ejwwest]

Applied darks and got 18 lights stacked.