Comet Jacques  C/2014 E2
in the evening sky
August 29th, 2014

 

            
 Here is last
            nights shooting of the comet, still in a very rich part of Cepheus.
            Now beaming at magnitude 7, the comet has a very faint gas tail,
            and a broad short dust tail.

            
Three processing
            methods are shown here, all with the same 60 minutes of data
            using 2 minute sub frames. The first is stacking the comet and
            the stars in one hour show the movement of the comet during that
            interval. A very rich star field indeed!

            
The second method
            is to combine the median stacked image with the star stacked
            image, after subtracting out the trailed comet. It is a realistic
            portrait of where the comet was on the first shot in the sequence.

            
The final third
            shot is a median combined image, showing the very faint tails
            at the expense of the stars.



            
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Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s f/6 - AKA "Zeiss APO" - with Televue .8x FR/CC- Canon Xti was used at ASA400
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Exposure:  60mins
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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