Comet McNaught crossing NGC891

It took a while to put together the color image. I processed 80 LRGB sub-frames (15 sec.ea.) and stacked once on the stars and again on the comet. Of course, it didn't help with the comet only 8 degrees above the horizon and taking the image with a 12" SCT @6.3 and SBIG ST9-E camera (1920 mm. focal length). You can also view a video of the event at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DY3nfJgys4

Tristan

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Excellant image James, I really enjoyed it. Very unique and well framed.
Brad

Cool!

Tristan,
That is a really cool image - I like the technique you used. The video of the subs is a super idea - I liked that a lot.

Wow, now that's cool. I haven't seen a real good comet image in awhile.

Nicely done,

Kevin

Hi All,

Thanks for all the nice comments. It was a very difficult image to process since the comet was so close to the horizon. At the time, I didn't think I would be able to get anything worth posting.

Tristan