On Sunday, January 18, 2015, the skies were finally crystal clear.  I used a 18-55mm Canon kit lens and shot Lovejoy Q2 with it.   Not exactly the image scale I wanted, but I needed to test that lens anyway, since I’ve never used it before.

I did not have an LP filter for this and it shows.  I went 2 minutes at F/5.6 and it was almost too much.  With the Lumicon or IDAS filters I own, I could go 5 to 8 minutes easily.

Update:   Improved Image