COMET LOVEJOY TAKE 3

[Leveye]

Here's my latest go from data i collected on the 25th of last month. One single 300 second exposure taken with my trusty Stellarvue SV80ED refractor. Edited with levels and curves in PS and tweeked in LR. Let me know what you think.

[Psychobilly]

Nice for a single exposure...

I suffered the same problem with balancing the tail against the noise levels elsewhere I think you have got it about right without a bit of masking...

Peter...

[Leveye]

Thank you sir! DSS has been giving me fits. The "comet and stars" mode really throws the green of the head off. I'm going to re-shoot the star field asap and then edit  and blend in the "comet only" image I have already by cloning out the trails. Very time consuming but much better results.

[Psychobilly]

Don't get me started about DSS and Comet mode or DSS and any mode really at the moment    In the days of my Modded 1000D it just worked...  But with my 20MP 7DII and 23 MP 5DIII it's stack and hope

Peter...

[Tonk]

This tutorial on using DSS to process comets might help - http://www.astrobin.com/151422/ . The DSS comet + stars mode is next to useless as it only works if no varying background gradients are happening, the comet is the right size and moves at the right rate and you have taken the right number of subs and that is extremely rare to get right. The key to the tutorial is learning how to isolate the comet and the stars separately and do the blending in something *other* than DSS. The tutorial can be translated into PixInsight steps by the brave !

[Pete Presland]

fabulous image, i am really going to miss Lovejoy!

[happy-kat]

Another corker.

Off to read the link. I have stopped using comet and stars as it lost the tail.