First Run - C2007/Q3 Siding Spring - Atik 314L

[NickH]

After the NGC1931 image completed, I ran 20x2 min subs on this in CLS filter. Will augment the colour data in later, but here's a first stab at mono for this comet

From the WISE site

The snowball-like mass of ice and dust spent billions of years orbiting in the deep freeze of the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of comets surrounding our solar system. At some point, it got knocked out of this orbit and onto a course that brings it closer to the Sun. On October 7, 2009, it passed as close as 1.2 astronomical units from Earth and 2.25 astronomical units from the Sun. Now, the comet is leaving the warmer, more hospitable neighborhood of the solar system and heading back out to chillier parts.

[Beyond_Vision]

Nice one for the album Nick. What scope did you use?

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

Quite a long tail too. Got to be a long time before this one returns, if ever. Good capture Nick, and it will be nice to see how the colour processing works out.

Ron.

[NickH]

Thanks guys.

Kevin this was the TMB at F6.2

[Psychobilly]

Thats a cracker Nick... might have to give it a go myself looks well worth it..

Peter...

[NickH]

It animates well too.. only 20 frames, but quite noticeable movement

Just getting a compression tool to drop it down to size

[Psychobilly]

Hmm target for the 8" I suspect now that OAG is working

I did my Comet Lulin anims in Microsoft Movie Maker ... you can specify an output file size for the movie...

Peter...

[NickH]

Aye...I have Sony Vegas for that, top bit of software

Here's the tail (s) using rotational gradient processing

[arad85]

Lovely capture Nick, but you seem to have travelled forward in time by one month

[NickH]

LOL...posted the wrong coordinates from IAU site

Will fix that ...thanks :-)

[NickH]

Composte with my comet and the SDSS data for the starfield

[Tim]

Lovely long tail on it Nick, nice one.