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Leonard with Crowbar and Whale

Target:Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard with NGC 4656 Crowbar galaxy and NGC 4631 Whale galaxy in Canes Venatici.

 

Location:05:30 AM GMT 25-11-21 St Helens, UK, Bortle 7, 75% Moon.

 

Acquisition:15x 180s CLS, G139, OS21, Tsensor -15c, 40x darks, 30x flats, 30 dark-flats. Total Integration 45 min.

 

Equipment:Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, x1 Flattener, EQ6RPro, ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, EFWmini with Skytech CLS-CCD,

 

Guiding:Skywatcher 9x50 finder with ZWO ASI120MM.

 

Software:NINA, PHD2, EQMOD.

 

Processing:DeepSkyStacker, Affinity Photo, Siril, Starnet ++.

 

Memories:Noticed this chance alignment was available whilst already capturing a narrowband imaging run on the Fish Head nebula. With no RGB filters in my filter wheel decided to try and capture a bonus greyscale image of the comet via CLS-CCD at the end of my run.

 

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Uploaded on November 25, 2021