rwilkinson wrote:
I can talk about.. a 14th-magnitude comet..
Well, as I explained last night, it was more like 15th magnitude.
Then after I got home from the meeting I could see that the constellation of
Auriga had risen above the trees, so I was able to have a go at it from my garden, using my preferred comet-imaging kit (an old
StarlightXpress camera on my focal-reduced 8" SCT):
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File comment: Comet 226P on 1-Nov. 13x 90-sec with MX716 on C8 at f/3.3.
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This is a rather better result that I'd managed last week with the 70mm 'scope - so the gain of the longer exposures and larger optical system outweighed the increased light-pollution (and my LPR filter) plus the hazy cloud which came over during my imaging (so I had to omit some of the sequence from my stack - hence the gaps in the star-trails).
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