Comet 21P - 11 August

[alexbb]

I went this weekend to my girlfriend's parents and I took my Skywatcher 72ED with me and the smaller AZ-EQ5. Fortunately, the skies are dark there.

So, on 11/12 August I put all the stuff on the mount and took 130+ 60s subs with the Canon 550D. The result is a crop, towards the edges the stars are not perfect yet, but they're a bit better than in the past. I put some additional spacers to the universal flattener and increased the backfocus distance. The comet doesn't fill the frame anyway.

Unfortunately, the animation doesn't really play ball, I will upload it somehow else later. Neither on the processed image I did the best job, I need to improve somehow in removing the artifacts on the comet-only image.

However, this is what I got:

[Knighty2112]

Nice image. Well done! Alas I’m not getting anything happening when I play the video. 

[alexbb]

I can't seem to upload properly the video. I will upload it somehow else. Is it gone now?

[Knighty2112]

Yes. The video is no longer there.

[Charic]

Nice capture.

[alexbb]

Thank you, guys! I'll better upload the animation tomorrow.

[alexbb]

[alexbb]

I uploaded an avi file, the gif looks horrible. I also added to the original post another edit of the comet + stars.

[Davey-T]

Had the same trouble with my animation, the background is rubbish, I think in my case it's light pollution, still messing around with it in P'Shop.

Dave

[alexbb]

I uploaded a video to youtube, but still bad quality: