Comet McNaught
Considerable structure is visible in the tail and the movement of the comet against the background stars can be seen by the faint, streaked stars.
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Tuesday 22 June 2010
Comet McNaught C2009/R1 with a Mintron and an 11" SCT at f/10
I used an Omega modified 1/2" chip colour Mintron fitted with a light pollution filter to image Comet McNaught. The comet was in the lightest part of the June 21-22 sky, just above and to the west of Capella. I captured 15 min of high quality DVD of the comet and of dark frames. The BMP images were extracted from the DVD with VOB Frame Extractor and the dark-frames were scaled with Dark Frame Scaler. The dark-frame corrected frames were stacked in Registax.
