Category: comets

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Comet Wirtanen December 7th

Wirtanen, stacked on the stars and the comet using PixInsight by Jean Lammertyn. Nikon D750, Nikkor 180mm ED 24x120s ISO400
Comet Wirtanen 46/p with Nikon D750 Nikkor 180mm ED ; no filters ; 12x30s on ISO800 ; processed with APP and Photoshop – no guiding & stacked on the stars ; crop from the original frame ; the shadows to the left in the image are tree branches that traced in the first few frames;
Equipment: Nikon D750, Nikkor 180mm ED F5.6 ; 24x120s on ISO400 ; processed with APP and PS ; stacked on the stars

Wirtanen Video

Comet Wirtanen clearing a large tree in my garden. Actually an MP4 of the NEF Nikon frames used to create the pictures above. 
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Comet Giacobini-Zinner

on display during the morning sky of September 8th

Nikon D750 + Esprit 120mm F5 Imaged 32×60 seconds on ISO3200, tracked on the stars and stacked on the comet…

Afbeelding bewaard met ingebedde instellingen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And combined image of comet and stars. I had to darken the background alot, as DSS creates residual startrailes that smear the image. It lost some color though

Afbeelding bewaard met ingebedde instellingen.

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