Something a bit different

[JohnP]

Did this late Saturday after getting home (was thinking of everyone down at Mark's....)

Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd

30 X 1min exposures L only (guided on a star) - I wanted to guide on comet head & go for longer exposures but couldn't find it in my OAG... I should have also used a CLS filter... I will put the animation together sometime...

[Rocket Pooch]

cool, apparently we should be able to see it from here in the 20" ok

[JohnP]

you can see it with Bino's.... mag 7.

[Rocket Pooch]

Ah,if Jim had brought them along!

[The Thing]

Nice one John, looking forward to the animation.

[JohnP]

Cheers Dunc.

[RobertM]

Nice one John, it's good to see a comet appearing in between all the usual suspects.  Should be a good animation too.

Robert

[MarkS]

A great one John - nicely processed (in both guises).

Looking forward to the animation (the 3rd guise, I suppose!)

Shame you couldn't make Saturday's session but see you some other time.

Mark

[Tony G]

John,

You seem to have trailing stars in both the images................................I hope the animation is better. 

Tony G

Well done.

[Fay]

That is a change, well done John!

Fay

[JohnP]

Well inspired by Dunc's animation - eventually got round to doing mine. This is 34X1min exposures.  Cheers,  John

[The Thing]

Very nice John, much smoother than mine.

[Tony G]

Nice animation John. 

Tony G

[Fay]

what did you stack it with John?

[JohnP]

I did the animation in Pshop. I just took the original 34 X 1 min fits. Did a basic linear stretch on each in aip4win. Then exported to Jpeg's. Opened up all 34 in Pshop & set each to its own layer & then used pshop animate feature..