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Comet Panstarrs (imaged near Anthony, NM)

Comet Panstarrs Region near Comet Panstarrs - March 11, 2013

 

Object Information                                            Imaging Details

Comet Panstarrs (C/2011 L4) was the first of the supposed 2013 super comets, and it was the first of the 2013 comets to not live up to expectations. Nonetheless, the comet put on a decent showing for a few days in mid-March

Here's an image taken with my C11/Hyperstar on Tuesday evening (3/12/13) at a student astrophotography session at a local community college where I do some instruction. Just for the fun of it, I used the nearby crescent Moon as a key to do a G2v (-like) color compensation on the image. Result was a nice blue ion tail with a hint of green in the coma. Negative is shown in the inset.

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Telescope:

Celestron Nexstar 11"

Camera:
Canon T2i
Filter(s):
 
Misc. Optics:
Hyperstar 2
Exposures:
22 x 30 seconds @ iso 1600
Guiding:
Unguided (G11 mount)
Processing:
Images converted to tifs with Photoshop CS5, then aligned on the comet's coma with Nebulosity.

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