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Comet McNaught R1 2010

Caught moving through Perseus towards end June 2010. Very low on the northern horizon from the UK, the initial stack of data was very green with light pollution and had to be scrubbed a fair bit (was pretty hard to salvage anything much really !)

 

Meade (Maxvision) 127 (@F7.5)

Mount - EQ6

Canon EOS 450D (Baader mod)

QHY5 PHD guiding, guidescope Celestron ED80 tracked on stars

 

RGB

- 12x40s ISO800 - IDAS LPS

- 6x60s ISO400 - IDAS LPS

 

Initial stack - DeepSkyStacker (Comet option)

All other processing PS CS3 inc Noel's actions for LP removal

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Uploaded on May 22, 2011
Taken on June 20, 2010