Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy With M79 in Lepus
in the Evening sky
December 28, 2014

 
 This
            is a second set of images of the comet with the deep sky object
            using the 80mm refractor. With a half moon interfering, the tail
            was a bit harder to capture on this night. The field here is
            nearly 3 degrees wide.
 
 

            
 Standard
            LRGB image, 2 minutes per color. The globular custer is the ruddy
            object to the left of the comets green head.

            
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 This is a
            "Median" combined stack, which tends to blur out the
            stars and make them much fainter so you can bring the tail up
            more clearly. This method is very powerful for viewing the faintest
            details in comet tails, but the stars are fuzzy blob remnants.

            
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Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s with .8x FR
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Exposure:  LRGB = 10:2:2:2
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  2/10, Transparency 5/10
Outside Temperature:  25F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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