Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
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Due to extremely bad weather last week I completely missed the opportunity to image this bright comet. Last evening there seemed to be a small window between the clouds and I tried to catch the comet. I succeeded to do this in only one frame (!). Thus this is (for now) my only CCD image of C/2011 L4. No dark and flat field reduction was applied on this single 30 sec. R exposure. The blue color was artificially added in PS. In the meantime the cloud cover was gone in Varna, where I could take some images with DSLR camera. They can be seen here. This image were acquired remotely from the remote controlled IRIDA Observatory . |
Technical Details: |
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| Optics: | ASA N12 Astrograph at F/3.6 |
| Mount: | ASA DDM 85 |
| Camera: | SBIG STL-11000M |
| Filters: | Astronomik LRGB filter set |
| Dates/Times: | 17 March 2013 |
| Location: | Rozhen, IRIDA Remote Observatory |
| Exposure Details: | Single R frame, no darks, no flats |
| Subexposures: | 30 sec. |
| Acquisition: | CCD Soft |
| Processing: | PixInsight, Photoshop CS |