FIUCASE
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lovejoy (C2/2014) in color. Image made through RGB filters with the 0.61-meter telescope atop the Stocker Astroscience center. We took a number of exposures through R, G and B filters and selected the one with the best "Seeing" in each color. The images were bias, dark and flat corrected and then combined using the "RGB combine" function in MIRA image processing software. Notice the red, green and blue dots. These are actually star images and normally are aligned so the red, green and blue images coincide. However, since comet Lovejoy is moving very rapidly, we had to align the images with the comet, therefore mis-aligning the stars by a large amount. The direction the colored stars are oriented tells you which direction the comet is moving. (see previous SPOW). These images were reduced and color combined by Dr. Webb, Owen Lalababayev, and Bobby Martinez.
Comet Lovejoy
Comet Lovejoy (C2/2014) in color. Image made through RGB filters with the 0.61-meter telescope atop the Stocker Astroscience center. We took a number of exposures through R, G and B filters and selected the one with the best "Seeing" in each color. The images were bias, dark and flat corrected and then combined using the "RGB combine" function in MIRA image processing software. Notice the red, green and blue dots. These are actually star images and normally are aligned so the red, green and blue images coincide. However, since comet Lovejoy is moving very rapidly, we had to align the images with the comet, therefore mis-aligning the stars by a large amount. The direction the colored stars are oriented tells you which direction the comet is moving. (see previous SPOW). These images were reduced and color combined by Dr. Webb, Owen Lalababayev, and Bobby Martinez.