Sweet animation, thanks Patrick! --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Comet Hartley To: "utah astronomy utah astronomy listserve" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 5:10 AM Tonight I noticed I'd just passed 103 nights of imaging in my observatory this year. 103 reminded me of Comet 103P/Hartley (yeah, my mind is wired weird).
So to commemorate the event I shot a series of 13 ten second exposures of the comet each spaced 5 minutes apart between 0901 and 1004 UTC (0301-0404 MDT) and strung them together in an animation.
Specs: C-14 @ f/5.5, ST-10 binned 3x3, C filter, FOV ~ 18' x 26'. North is up, east to the left.
http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/103PHARTLEY20101001.GIF
I didn't do anything "heroic" to the raw files other than apply a master dark and master flat and remove several hot and cold pixels. If anyone would care to have a go at bringing out more cometary structure I'd be happy to email them the originals.
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