A very small and dim comet in the early evening skies of Pegasus. A star streaks version of the image is below.
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Comet Encke on November 2, 2013, 11:21 UT
Seven sub-images done quickly before twilight turned the sky too blue.
C/2012 S1 (ISON) on November 2nd, 2013
Friday, November 1st, 2013 was clear and cool. I was convinced that Saturday morning would be crystal clear and I could get some great shots of all the comets in the sky. Unfortunately, the sub-tropical jet stream intruded and brought with it high altitude clouds and ruined my plans to do my comet imaging.
I shot lots of subs for ISON, but deleted more than I kept because most had clouds in them. Some had tree branches and I kept them because I had nothing else. Consequently, the image quality suffered with the low number of sub-images and the gradients introduced by the tree branches in the pics. Oh, well…
BTW, the star-streaks version is below:
Comet Lovejoy, Nov 2, 2013
Comet Lovejoy with only 2 exposures – 1×120 @ ISO 800 and 1×71 sec @ ISO 800. Clouds were in all the other sub-images and were not really useable.
Comet ISON on October 27, 2013
Here’s one I’ve been struggling with trying to get the noise down since conditions were very poor when I shot the sub-images for this. Compare mine to this one by Damian Peach shot less than 45 minutes later. 🙂
I have another image below that I initially posted. For the above image, I reprocessed it from the original stacks. But, I used a slightly different blending method (screen blending) for the comet and background star image to create the composite and lighten blending for the image below:
Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) on October 27, 2013
An image of Comet Lovejoy taken in difficult conditions. Transparency was bad and the LP almost overwhelmed the 2 minutes exposure. Then, my laptop rebooted for no apparent reason in the middle of the set. By the time I was ready to start shooting again, Lovejoy was in the trees.
That’s the “star freeze” version above and below is the “star streaks” version:
Continue reading Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) on October 27, 2013
The “Coathanger” Asterism
Here’s an area I’ve always wanted to shoot simply because I like seeing this in my binoculars. 🙂
Comet ISON on October 26, 2013
Another version of ISON. Still working on the color on this one.
Comet ISON Growing in Size – Nearly Doubled in 10 Days!
Ten days ago on October 15, 2013, I posted an image here on my blog that I took showing Comet ISON and how it looked at the time. Today, October 25, 2013, I want to show how Comet ISON has grown in size and brightness. Please note that all the equipment used to take the images and the image size are all the same.
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Comet C/2012 X1 (Linear) on October 24, 2013
My first image of the “exploding” Comet Linear. Sometime before October 20th, 2013, it is believed that the comet went from below magnitude 14 to magnitude 8.5 in an “explosive” outburst. This is reminiscent of Comet Holmes back in October of 2007. In Comet Holmes case, the comet reached naked eye visibility soon after the outburst started. C/2012 X1 is still a long way away from that level of brightness and is not expected to get anywhere close to naked eye visibility until, if the trend continues, February of 2014.