C/200 VZ13 is nearing its peak on light curve – see
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006VZ13/2006VZ13.html
This is presently the brightest comet in the sky. It will be fading in a week or so.
It is racing though Draco at 8.4 arc seconds per minute at magnitude ~ 8.4. I was limited to 45 second exposures when I imaged it to avoid blur.
Let me know what you think of the movie. Note that I have really squashed the file size to permit rapid down load. It is only 679 kB.
It was really hard for me to stretch all the frames the same because the high cirrus cloud layer was rapidly changing. I had to manually adjust each frame to match the previous one. I’ve probably invested six hours in image processing and composing the web page.
Images, associated data, eyepiece view, imaging notes and *movie* all at
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
Please take a look and give me some feedback. This was quite a processing challenge for me. Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006VZ13/2006VZ13.html
This is presently the brightest comet in the sky. It will be fading in a week or so.
It is racing though Draco at 8.4 arc seconds per minute at magnitude ~ 8.4. I was limited to 45 second exposures when I imaged it to avoid blur.
Let me know what you think of the movie. Note that I have really squashed the file size to permit rapid down load. It is only 679 kB.
It was really hard for me to stretch all the frames the same because the high cirrus cloud layer was rapidly changing. I had to manually adjust each frame to match the previous one. I’ve probably invested six hours in image processing and composing the web page.
Images, associated data, eyepiece view, imaging notes and *movie* all at
http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm
Please take a look and give me some feedback. This was quite a processing challenge for me. Thank you for visiting my site.
Clear skies,
Dennis Persyk
Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net
Hampshire, IL
