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 This
            is one frame in a sequence of 83 continuous shots taken by the
            robotic barn door mount yesterday morning with the Sigma 8mm
            fish eye lens looking generally southeast. I was testing a new
            polar bore scope that night, which worked great as the stars
            are very round and the unit is tracking well. This frame around
            1am shows a bright green dot on the meridian, very near the center
            of the frame - the 5.5 mag comet Lulin. The inset shows a 10x
            enlargement which not only shows the nice tight stars images,
            but that Lulin has a much more developed tail. The next few days
            the comet will be closest to Earth and the view will be even
            better!
Instrument:  Sigma 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens @f/4
Platform:  Robotic Barn Door Mount
Camera:  Hutech Modified Canon XTi @ ISO800
Exposure:  5m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  35F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Maxim DSLR
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