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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Comet and stuff

Horray! First clear night for ages, decided to go for Comet Lovejoy. After a bit of searching with binoculars I found it  near Pleiades star cluster. Chilly - 25C here in Finland, thankfully there was a fireplace near by so I could go warm up between the shots.
Alignment turned out great aswell, although I am a total novice in it because I dont have my own tracking mount. My friend came with me and he has Astrotrac. By pure luck I managed to get it aligned fairly well. 6 minutes without trailing at 50mm, so I stacked 8 of them to gather more light.

On the left side of the comet, you can see Pleiades star cluster, in the middle the is extremely faint reflection nebula complex, called Perseus molecular cloud. The red emission nebula above it is California nebula.

8x6min | f/2.0 | ISO 200 with Canon 6D and Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II


Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2

1 comment:

  1. Kappas, täältähän löytyy tuttu kuva! Onnittelut uusimpaan t+a -lehteen pääsystä. Komea kuva.

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