Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) continues to delight many people with its beautiful tail. It is still visible at the midnight in the north or northeast of the sky. I tried to capture the comet with a small Meade 70 mm quadruplet apo refractor.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), July 11, 2020
Equipment:
-Meade 70 мм quadruplet apo astrograph
-Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount
-Canon 5D mark II
15 frames per 10s, calibration with DeepSkyStacker, stacking with Fitswork.
Location: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
Tonight, I managed to get to the outskirts of the city to observe and shoot comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). At my latitude, the comet is visible low above the horizon in the northeastern part of the sky an hour and a half before the onset of morning dusk. Unfortunately, the comet is not visible from my yard because of houses and trees, so I had to look for another place to observe. At about 2:30 in the night I got out to the northern part of Anapa, found an empty yard and immediately saw a small elongated spot near the horizon. The small 5х20 binoculars immediately revealed a beautiful view – a bright core and a long tail. Perhaps this is one of the most impressive comets I’ve seen (along with comet C / 1995 O1 (Hale – Bopp)).
Since the trip was more reconnaissance, I decided not to take a lot of equipment – a Canon 55-250 IS II photo lens, a Canon 550Da camera, a Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi mount head and a QZSD Beike QZSD Beike Q999.
A good guide to finding a comet in the next couple of days will be the Capella star. I also use the Stellarium Mobile Plus app to search for a comet. At the end of the survey, I admired the parade of planets – Venus, Mars, the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter were simultaneously visible in the sky, lining up in a line. A beautiful sight!
I managed to capture the comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). Shooting was prevented by the growing Moon and city light pollution, so I added an Optolong L-Pro 1.25″ filter. The comet is small, the tail was poorly visible in single frames, but it immediately appeared when the frames were stacked.
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), 02/04/2020, 21:41-23:41
Equipment:
-Meade 70mm Astrograph Quadruplet APO refractor
-Meade LX85 mount
-Optolong L-Pro 1.25″ filter
–QHY5III178m camera.
240 frames per 30s.
Processing: Fitswork (stacking by comet). Scale 50%. Fullsize at link.
Location: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
Equipment:
-lens Samyang 135\2.0 ED Canon EF
-camera Canon 550Da
-filter Svbony CLS clip EOS-C
-mount Sky-Watcher Adventurer
140 frames per 30s, ISO 800.
Calibration with DeepSkyStacker, stacking with Fitswork
Scale 50%.
Place: Russia, Anapa, backyard.
Capturing the comet 46P /Wirtanen was quite difficult due to unstable weather, light pollulion from the city and the Moon. To reduce light pollution, I applied the filter Svbony CLS. Also, there were problems with processing in DeepSkyStacker with alignment by comet and stars – strange addition artifacts appeared. In the end, I decided to just add pictures with alignment on the comet. Perhaps I will come back to this material. The comet itself is bright, large and fast. I watched her a bit with 22×100 binoculars, like a globular cluster. The bright group of stars in the lower right corner is the Pleiades star cluster M45.
Давненько я не снимал кометы. После недавней съемки водородных туманностей решил еще выловить комету 21P/Джакобини — Циннера (Giacobini–Zinner). Она довольно яркая, нашел без особых сложностей. За 40 минут съемки она заметно сдвинулась на фоне звёзд. Интересная комета, советую посмотреть и поснимать. С обработкой возникли сложности – DeepSkyStacker коряво сложил снимки, поэтому тут на помощь пришел Registax 5. Сначала откалиброванные в DSS снимки я закинул в Registax 5, потом сделал выравнивание по ядру кометы самой маленькой точкой (32х32). Затем сложение, уровникривые и шумоподавление.
Комета 21P/Джакобини — Циннера, 21 августа 2018 года, 03:49-04:28
Оборудование:
-объектив Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC Canon EF
-камера QHY5III178 mono
-монтировка Sky-Watcher Adventurer.
412 кадров по 5 секунд.
Калибровка в DeepSkyStacker, сложение в Registax по комете.
Масштаб 50%.
В 100% масштабе тут.
Место съемки: Анапа, двор.
В качестве небольшого бонуса – анимация перемещения кометы 21P на фоне звёзд 03:49-04:28.
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