Comet lovejoy with achro

[Trevor N]

SW 120 F5 achro on an HEQ5 unguided mount. 40 x 90 secs exposures. Tried the clever bit in DSS to get stars and the comet but failed miserably. Have to accept a comet and trails instead. Blue halos show up a bit but pleased with the detail. Trevor

[happy-kat]

Lovely colour.

I have just been using the comet feature and first I registered all the images and then I had to save the comet position on each light separately before I stacked to then get the comet tab on the stacking dialog with the three options.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice result. I also had difficulties getting DSS to stack in the comet and stars mode properly. Not sure what went wrong

[Trevor N]

Thanks for the comments. I followed the instructions found on the web but all went well until it was building the final image . It got to 1 second left and then it froze. Tried different settings with the same result and finally accepted the trails above. Perhaps another go if I can find out what went wrong. Trevor

[happy-kat]

What about trying doing half twice (each separate half) and then a third stack to merge?

[Trevor N]

Think I understand what you mean . Could 40 images be too much for the program ?

[happy-kat]

I stacked 20 raw with 6 darks this week with no trouble so perhaps on your setup it is worth trying less and seeing.

[Ruud]

Well done, Trevor, I love that it shows a bit of tail.

Excellent work. Thanks for sharing.

[Pete Presland]

very nice