Comet C/2024 Atlas G3
Stellarvue SV80 f/6 Astrograph in the morning sky
Uploaded 1/11/25

 
This
            comet is racing towards perihelion on the 13th and will then
            go into the evening sky. Unfortunately it wont be much in our
            evening sky, best seen in the southern hemisphere. Currently
            around 1st magnitude it has a short tail in the brilliant smoke
            haze twilight. Was visible in binoculars, but not naked eye.
            To creat this redition, 100 frames were taken with an average
            exposure ranging from 0.5s to 0.02 seconds. The images were normalized
            in groups, then combined by registering the nucleus in all 100
            frames. This was then summed onto the first frame to show the
            horizon clearly.

            
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1400 x 1290


Instrument:  SV80S Astrograph with Televue 0.8x FF
Mount:  Ioptron Gem45
Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Color CMOS
Guider: none
Exposure:  100 x 0.03S av onto first frame
Location:  Payson, Az
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 5 arcsec , Transparency 3/10
Outside Temperature:  25 F

Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL6:  Calibration, Color Conversion
PixInsight:  DBE, Curves, Stacking
Photoshop CS2:  Cleanup

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