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| C/2012 S1 ISON |
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| C/2013 R1 Lovejoy |
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| C/2013 R1 Lovejoy Negative |
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| C/2012 X1 Linear |
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| C/2012 X1 Linear Crop |
Saturday morning - 09/11/2013 - covered the Quartet - Again!.
First 2P/Encke. As there was a fair amount on interest in its trail I spent as much time as possible on imaging this before dawn came.
What follows are four versions of the same image. The first is the regular image. The second is the negative. The third is a stretched regular and the fourth a stretched negatve. In the final image you can really see the meandering trail.
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| 2P/Encke |
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| 2P/Encke |
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| 2P/Encke |
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| 2P/Encke |
Below is C/2012 S1 ISON. This is still not developing very much, though I did see an image that was taken 24 hrs after this one and a second tail has now clearly appeared. I will be trying for this tomorrow morning.
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| C/2012 S1 ISON |
C/2012 X1 Linear continues to be fairly bright after its outburst.
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| C/2012 X1 Linear |
C.2013 R1 Lovejoy is really becoming the star of the show. It continues to brighten and is well ahead of ISON. Where as ISON is difficult to see in 10x50 binos, Lovejoy is now being seen with the naked eye.
I used four different method of processing Lovejoy to see if I could bring out more detail. I then stretched each one.
Process 1.
Process 2
Process 3
Process 4
All the images were taken using the Searchlight Observatory Network Observatory here in the Sierra Contraviesa, Granada, Spain at an altitude of 4,500 feet. The telescope used is a 4" Pentax F4 refractor and the camera is a SBig ST8 . All the images, with the exception of the cropped Linear are FOV 116.5 x 77.7 arcmins
There was no observing on the morning of Sunday 10th November due to my wife going to England for a week or two. I thought it would not go down too well to open the observatory while she was getting ready to leave :)
In the next blog I will include some objects that are not comets :)
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