Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 148 frame animation 10-01-2014

[melsky]

Chipping Norton amateur astronomy group (CNAAG) had a good turnout last night on a windswept disused airfield near the town. We all huddled together in the lee of a container which serves as the model flying clubs store to set up our mounts to view and image Comet Lovejoy, five equatorial mounts an Astrotrac and a couple of Dobs made it very snug but the comet was visible to the naked eye and easy in an 8x30 finder.

I was using my FSQ85 with an unmodded Sony A7s and managed to get 148 x 30sec unguided subs @8000iso.

Mel

Here's a link to an animation of all the frames

Stack of 32 frames to show the tail detail

[cfpendock]

Fantastic shots!

Chris

[RodexMtl]

Uffff great images!!!!!!!

[michael23]

very nice, great iso performance from the a7s.

[baggywrinkle]

_{Beautiful.....}

[sharkmelley]

Excellent image and great animation!

Mark

[Pete Presland]

Excellently captured!

[Davide Simonetti]

Wow, that's really beautiful, congratulations 

[1parsec]

Brilliant image, and even more so considering the weather conditions of late. 

Dave.

[Iainp]

Wonderful! 

[Twisted Lip]

Spot on, great shots and I really like the animation

Will

[Trevor N]

Brilliant detail. Well done

[happy-kat]

Animation is very cool

[tingting44]

awsome! thanks for sharing

[giorgio_ne]

Great pictures! What adapters did you use to connect the A7S to the Baby Q?