Comet ISON on October 15, 2013

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Comet ISON, Oct 15, 2013. 30×120 sec @ ISO 800, TV-85 at F/5.6, IDAS-LPS, modified Canon T3.

I cleared more of my eastern sky of blocking tree branches and waited until another clear morning.  On Tuesday, October 15th, 2013, I got my chance to image Comet ISON again.  It looks larger to me than it was a week ago.  I used the same sub exposure time but with more sub-images.

Here is the “star-streak” version of the same data:

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Comet ISON, Oct 15, 2013. 30×120 sec @ ISO 800, TV-85 at F/5.6, IDAS-LPS, modified Canon T3.

And, for good measure, I did a 2x Drizzle process with the subs and then a rotational gradient filter in IRIS to produce this image showing what is possibly jet-like activity from the comet’s central condensation:

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