MadMan's Astronomy and Astrophotography Pages - Photos of the Week
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| Photos of The Week - January, 2015 Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Imaged January 24, 2015 Trius 814 and Canon 60Da on Takahashi FSQ-106EDx Refractor Telescope |
| Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Imaged January 24, 2015 Tak FSQ106-EDXiii @ prime - Canon 60Da - iso 800 - 22x2m Losmandy G11 mount with Gemini 2 controller Captured with Nebulosity, guided with PHD2 and a Lodestar autoguider Processing PixInsight and Photoshop |
| Simultaneously imaged HaRGB version of the Rosette Nebula Canon 60Da in the Tak FSQ106 @ prime (f5) + Ha with the SXVR-H694 and Ha filter with an EF 200 mm lens Total 6 hours of data captured in 3 hours Rough cut processing below |
| Pixinsight by-products: Registered on Stars - Comet head trails, ill defined tail. |
| Canon 60 Da - EF70-200 @ 200mm |
| Trius SX 814 CCD - Tak FSQ106-EDXiii @ f3.6 |
| Time Lapse of individual Luminance frames from the Trius 814 |
| Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy - Imaged January 8, 2015 - First try Simultaneous imaging - Trius 814 mono CCD and Canon 60Da on Losmandy G11 mount with Gemini 2 controller Trius 814 @ Focal length = 370mm, f3.7. Canon 60Da @ f5.6 and iso 800/1600 - Focal Length = 200 mm Captured with Sequence Generator and Nebulosity, guided with PHD2 and a Lodestar autoguider Processing PixInsight and Photoshop Wide Field (Canon) = 10x2m subframes calibrated, registered and stacked. Narrow Field (Trius) = 5 x 2 m L, 5 x 2 m R, 5 x 2 m G, 5 x 2 m B Rainy, cloudy month and this was my only 20 minutes of clear sky. |
| Combination in both PI and PhotoShop. Au Naturel (no star-spikes added) and with diffraction spikes |
| Pixinsight by-products: Registered on Comet - Windsorized Sigma clipping for star rejection - result - pure Comet, well defined tail. |
| Time-lapse of 32 x 2 minute frames or so... |
