February 24, 2009

Saturn & Lulin (02-23-2009)

This was Saturn (the bright one on the left, with at least one moon) and Comet Lulin around 11:50 pm on the night of February 23rd. The comet was moving so fast that I can see its position change in each of my 20-second exposures. Flipping through them looks like a movie! So this is just 5 x 20" with the XTi and WO 0.8 ff II through the AT66ED, processed in Nebulosity and PSE7.

Here is a focus on just the comet. This is 20x20" of the same set of subs stacked on the comet itself.



2 comments:

Unknown said...

Very nice. Have you considered posting an animation of your exposures? I'd really like to see that...

Polaris B said...

Thanks! It's a great idea. I am working on it as I type!