Comet Lemmon C/2012 F6 & Time-lapse video

Check the following time-lapse video of this session here



IMAGING DATA
Optical train: AP130 EDF GT + AP 0.75x focal reducer
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: unguided
Camera: Canon 1000D (modded and peltier cooled)
Frames: 37 lights, 3 min. ea. @iso1600, calibrated with darks/bias
Processing: PixInsight 1.8 using a mixed technique to separate comet from stars. Background stars come from a single 3-min sub, while the comet is the result of stacking all 37 subs by registering it while statistically rejecting the shifting stars.
Date: 2013-02-06
Place: Observatorio "Las Lechuzas", Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seeing & transparency: average/very good

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