A fantastic video of Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 taken by Dr. Fritz - TopicsExpress



          

A fantastic video of Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 taken by Dr. Fritz Helmut Hemmerich. In his words: 164 subframes 45 sec each, captured between 20:00 and 23 h UT in Tenerife, 1200 m alt. FOV: ca 2° x 1.5°, You can see metamorphosis in the DE (disconnection event) part of the tail and also the newly formed, very faint second tail, perpendicular to the up to now spectacular tail . Sony A7s (modded, uncooled) at Hyperstar/Celestron 14, EQ8 mount, ISO 1600, calibrated (flat, superbias, dark), Dynamic and automatic background extraction, MaskedStretch, LocalHistogramEqualization, Crop, CurvesTransformation, MultiscaleLinearTransform in PixInsight 1.8
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:55:00 +0000

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