After a long spate of cloudy and wet weather, it finally cleared enough for imaging on the night of Jan 4th/5th, 2019. My last imaging session was just before Christmas, so it had been a while.
The imaging went reasonably well, just getting home was a little difficult due to car trouble, but I made it. Then, I locked myself out the vehicle before I could unload my stuff. Doh! Oh, well… $60 bucks later I was busy working on this image (without getting any sleep, either. ) 🙂
After doing the above images, i did another take on the star-freeze version with this cropped and more gaudy version below. I think it catches more of the extent of the whole comet like the star-streaks version does:
Speaking of the star-streak version, the one I did below is almost pristine. I barely did anything to it. It shows the ion tail much better than the first star-freeze versions, too: