Comet Lulin 2 h 45m timelapse HD1080p

[Psychobilly]

Heres the "movie" of Comet Lulin against a fixed starfield background re-rendered as a HD1080P

http://www.btinternet.com/~psmithuk/movies/Lulin_HD1080.wmv

Hope you like it...

72 "frames" 120s ISO800 Canon 1000D on William Optic Megrez 72 with FFIII Hutech IDAS P2, piggy-backed on Celestron CPC800 Guided (PHDGuide) on a star using DSI IIC on 500mm F8 Tele Lens...

Billy...

[blinky]

Sweeeeeet....

[Psychobilly]

Cheers Craig....it sort of worked...might have sacrificed the "still" image for the movie but the movie was one of my main goals for this session...

I might process each individual frame (if i can remeber how to record a macro in CS) and then regenerate the movie... but not tonight

Billy...

[Mick.G.]

I'm starting to enjoy these movie's.

Well put together Billy.

Mick.G.

[brendant]

Superb animation Billy, you have really pulled out all the stops on this one, love it, very smooth.

Brendan

[Psychobilly]

Cheers Brendan....

I Haven't had much luck trying to stack a "still" yet though.... can do a good "spring onion" though

[beamish]

Certainly one of the smoothest animations -cracker !!

Karlo

[jgs001]

Superb Billy

[Helen]

That's cool!!

[Jaffa007]

Fantastic!!

[Andrew*]

Love that!

[Ant]

That is fantastic, really nice and smooth.

Ant

[JCJC]

Brilliant animation, one of the best.

Jordan

[Beyond_Vision]

Fantastic job Pete, I like that a lot

Regards

Kevin

[Doc]

Amazing stuff Billy.

[Psychobilly]

Cheers posted another this time Comet tracked so the starfield moves... apart form the two little "hiccups"

On and this is the 5K post since Aug 5 2008 I need help.....

[Doc]

5K post since Aug 5 2008 I need help.....

You have to much free time.

But keep it up I've enjoyed all your posts.

[red dwalf]

how do you do it ! i can`t even find it !!!!!!!!!!!

[Tim]

Thats brilliant Peter, excellent work.

Have you tried the three comet stacking options in DSS? The third one is best, gives focussed stars and comet.

[Psychobilly]

Yeah tried them all TJ... think I'll try shorter stacks and see if that helps...

Red dwalf I just looked up the current "real-time" position of the comet on Heavens Above and slewed the scope to those co-ords...

I'd also managed to pick it up visually and with the 25x100's

The guidecam needed a 4s exposure to lock onto the comets core compared to 0.2 to 0.5s to lock onto a normal guidestar as i needed sufficient exposure to differentiate the core from the head of the tail.

Billy...

Billy...

[Starflyer]

Great animation Peter

I had a go myself but couldn't persuade PHD to lock onto the comet so shot 30 mins of 60s subs with a slight elongation of the core.

[Psychobilly]

Ian were you using the QHY5 as the guidecam - I would have thought that would have worked nicely...

I really had to up the exposure time with the guide cam so that the bright core became visible inside the "head" then PHD managed to lock.

The only problem was when a star got into the tracking box PHD swapped to guiding off that. I'll drop the size of the tracking box next time and hopefully that will help .

Billy...

[roberte76]

whats great about the movie is that it allows us to view and understand the dynamism of these objects ,keep up the good work!!!

[Dangerous-Dave]

Finally got round to downloading this and it's a cracker!

[trevboyd]

That is very cool indeed, Billy - thanks for sharing!

Trev