Photographing Lovejoy help.

[Lee85]

Hey everyone,

ive not yet had a try of taking a photo of Lovejoy but the thing that im curious about is if i track the comet and take the exposures the stars in the background will have trails. and im wanting to take a photo with the comet and stars in focus.

i can either take shorter exposures or take images of the tracked stars and then take some of the comet but then how do i merge them both together is there any software that will help with that. 

Thanks and hopefully that made sense of what im trying to do  

[Freddie]

DSS has a comet stacking mode which allows you to have the comet with star trails or the comet without star trails.