Bernd Brinkmann´s

images of

Comet C/2005 L3 (Mc Naught)

date (yy/mm/dd) time (UT) exp. time (min/sec) camera / telescope film / CCD image size Remarks

29P/ Schwassmann-Wachmann

after a thunderstorm the air was rather humid and transparency not good

2007/07/20

21:27:05
-
22:02:42

32 x 60 sec

C 8 @
f / 5.6

Starlight SX

7.3' x 7.3'

processing with
MIRA A/P:
dark
flat

processing with
Astrometrica:
track and stack on comet
save as FITS

processing with Photoshop:
open FITS
pixel rectification
log scaling
cropping
save as JPEG

Animation of 2 comets crossing each other:
C/2005 L3 (east-west motion) and
P/2007 N2 (south-north motion)

just after nearest approach clouds were interfering

2007/07/20

21:27:05
-
22:54:41

62 x 60 sec

C 8 @
f / 5.6

Starlight SX

6.1' x 8.6'

processing with
MIRA A/P:
dark
flat

processing with
Astrometrica:
track and stack (sets of 4x60 sec) on P/2007 N2
save as FITS

MIRA A/P:
crop

processing with Photoshop:
log scaling
save as GIF

animation done with GIF Construction Set Professinal 2.0a

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last update: 22.07.2007