Comet Jacques  C/2014 E2
in the morning sky
August 26th, 2014

 

            
 Here are
            the final color images of the comet for this date, Ive also included
            the original luminance data at the bottom for comparison.

            
This set is the
            luminance data for last night processed two different ways. The
            comets tail is actually two tails, both exceedingly faint burried
            in a very rich Cepheus milkyway starfield! To bring up the tail,
            two methods are employed here. The color data was added to this
            set from 6 mins of RGB on the same field.

            
First image is
            stacked with average aligning on the comets nucleus. The stars
            are so insanely prominent, the dust tail pointing to the upper
            left and the gas tail pointing to the lower left is difficult
            to discnern.

            
The bottom image
            is combined with Median stack, and greatly reduces the number
            of stars to faint indistinct streaks. Now you can clearly see
            both tails. Normally I dont show my median stacks because they
            look a bit unsettling to me, but use them to sum in the comets
            L data onto a star field that is stationary.



            
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Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s f/6 - AKA "Zeiss APO" - with Televue .8x FR/CC
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Exposure:  40m L, 6m RGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  58F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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