Comet Atlas (C/2019 Y4)

[SlimPaling]

Hi ....

On Saturday evening I managed to blow the cobwebs off my set-up after several months of in activity due to poor weather ... and get some shots of Comet Atlas.

It is well over a year since I have tried to image a comet so I have a lot to re-remember how to go about it!

I took 15 x 100 sec images using only the Luminance filter. After calibrating these in MaximDL I aligned the stacked images on the actual comet rather than the stars.

I am amazed just how far the comet moved in just over 30mins judging by the lengths of the star trails!

At the next opportunity I will try out shorter exposures ... probably 60 sec each .... thus reducing the movement of the actual comet during each exposure.

[City9Town0]

Looking at the stars, my image must have been from about the same time... As I mentioned elsewhere ed80 and 5d3, greatly over-processed, but Hey Ho!