C/2020 F3 and its ion tail

[paulastro]

   A  beautiful photo, thanks for posting.

[BRADLEY 1953]

  Outstanding, a truly beautiful image.

[tomato]

Outstanding, the best close up image I have seen to date I think,  and there are quite a few out there now.

[CraigT82]

Fantastic image. Definitely the best I've seen, thanks for posting 

[John Nodding]

Jaw dropping levels of cor blimey! 👀👌🏻

Noddy

 

[bob-c]

Brilliant Stunning, very well done,

Bob.

[Ken Mitchell]

Here is a new edit using the comet stacking mode and the DSS stacking settings for the lights on average to get the most startrails in the final. By looking at the startrails it seems there was some vibration in certain shots.

I tried to do the same post processing on this image as the original one, it's close but not a perfect match.

I like both images but personally prefer the one with the starfield. 

Ken

Edited July 15, 2020 by Ken Mitchell

[Paul M]

I like the star trails personally but either way, it's an astounding image of a great comet.

World class!

Edited July 15, 2020 by Paul M

[Mr Spock]

Top shot 👍

[Xiga]

20 hours ago, Ken Mitchell said:

Here is a new edit using the comet stacking mode and the DSS stacking settings for the lights on average to get the most startrails in the final. By looking at the startrails it seems there was some vibration in certain shots.

I tried to do the same post processing on this image as the original one, it's close but not a perfect match.

I like both images but personally prefer the one with the starfield. 

Ken

Love this one Ken. It really gives the impression of the comet zipping through space. 

May I ask, were you just hedging your bets by doing various exposures from 5s to 30s? Did they actually prove useful in the final image, or would the 30s subs have just done on their own? 

Just thinking, did you use the shorter ones for the comet's core?

[Ken Mitchell]

1 hour ago, Xiga said:

Love this one Ken. It really gives the impression of the comet zipping through space. 

May I ask, were you just hedging your bets by doing various exposures from 5s to 30s? Did they actually prove useful in the final image, or would the 30s subs have just done on their own? 

Just thinking, did you use the shorter ones for the comet's core?

Ciarán,

The different exposures were planned for 2 reasons. 

First, as you mentioned, I wanted to make sure having enough short exposures/data to get as much detail in the core and surroundings.

Second, this was taken in the morning so as the minutes passed the sky becomes brighter and the comet will get lost in the background. So shorter exposure will compensate for the background brightness and at the same time get the detail for the core.

I started with a 30 second frame session and reduced the exposure with 5 seconds every 20 frames or so.

Hope that makes sense.

Ken

[Xiga]

3 hours ago, Ken Mitchell said:

Ciarán,

The different exposures were planned for 2 reasons. 

First, as you mentioned, I wanted to make sure having enough short exposures/data to get as much detail in the core and surroundings.

Second, this was taken in the morning so as the minutes passed the sky becomes brighter and the comet will get lost in the background. So shorter exposure will compensate for the background brightness and at the same time get the detail for the core.

I started with a 30 second frame session and reduced the exposure with 5 seconds every 20 frames or so.

Hope that makes sense.

Ken

Thanks Ken, much appreciated. 

[Rattler]

Fantastic image. Really captured it there.

 

[FaB-Bo-Peep]

Think this could be the best I've seen so far, absolutely sunning!