Thursday, December 25, 2014
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, 20th and 23rd of December
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy continues to delight observers, with a partial tail disconnection event and some impressive tail twisting.
In binoculars it is an easy catch, and in my Canon point and shoot images it has significantly brightened. I made it out to be magnitude 5.8, other estimates have been around 5.6-5.7. Well into the unaided eye range under dark skies.
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| 18-12-14. 5x180 second luminance images stacked in ImageJ on the comet and a MEDIAN Z project taken then inverted | 19-12-14. 5x180 second luminance images stacked in ImageJ on the comet and a MEDIAN Z project taken then inverted | 20-12-14. 5x180 second luminance images stacked in ImageJ on the comet and a MEDIAN Z project taken then inverted |
I have extended my comparison of the comets tail out to three days, the images are 5x180 second luminance images Bin 2 taken with iTelescope T12 stacked in ImageJ on the comet and a MEDIAN Z project taken then inverted. North is to the top.
Resolution is 3.5 arc-secs/pixel
Labels: C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, comet, iTelescope
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 12:10 am 
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