Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) Movie - Moving through Taurus Comet Lovejoy moving past the stars of Taurus. This gave me another opportunity to simultaneously image through the guide scope and the E-180 astrograph. The field of the image is 2 degrees. I had to lower the resolution of the movie in order to be able to post this to the gallery.
30 images x 60-second luminance subframes with autodark, Total= 0.5 hour. Orion Short Tube 90 acromatic refractor, SBIG ST-8300M monochrome CCD camera, Binned 3x3, No filters, Acquisition using CCDSoft, Jpeg conversion with CCD Stack, GIF movie using ULead GIF Animator. ATMoB Clubhouse, Westford, MA, 10 January 2015 |