| Date: |
December 30, 2007 |
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| Exposure: |
L 12m : 6 x 120s |
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| Processing: |
CCDSoft for image acquisition, controlled by CCDAutoPilot3. Processed in CCDStack. Composite created in CCDStack from 6 luminance frames. Animation created in Photoshop CS2 and converted to GIF for web presentation. |
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| Conditions: |
Clear, but fog and occassional clouds |
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| Scope: |
FSQ-106N |
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| Camera: |
SBIG STL 11000XM, -25° |
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| Comments: |
The comet had already passed M33 when it cleared at the SRO site. I set up CCDAutoPilot3 to start taking 5 min images, but the first image that came out showed a very elongated core of the comet. This one is moving very fast. I dropped the exposure time to 2 min. and ran a sequence of RGBC and repeated that 24 times. There wasn't enough color data collected due to the clouds and fog to try and make a color image, so I used the best luminance that came out. The 6 frames that were used show a movement of about 55 min total time. |
