Comet Lovejoy, January 18
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy last night, as seen under the dark skies of the Eastern Sierra. Knowing where to look (near Pleiades) I was able to just make it our with my eyes, and find it with a 70-200 mm lens.
It showed up well in photos captured on a full frame DSLR with 16 - 35 mm lens at 30 mm focal length with no star tracking mount, but for the 200 mm shots I used a tracking mount so the stars wouldn't "drag" in the photo from the rotation of the earth.
To keep the processing simple I captured 3 exposures and processed them in Adobe Lightroom and Photomatix HDR software.
Comet Lovejoy, January 18
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy last night, as seen under the dark skies of the Eastern Sierra. Knowing where to look (near Pleiades) I was able to just make it our with my eyes, and find it with a 70-200 mm lens.
It showed up well in photos captured on a full frame DSLR with 16 - 35 mm lens at 30 mm focal length with no star tracking mount, but for the 200 mm shots I used a tracking mount so the stars wouldn't "drag" in the photo from the rotation of the earth.
To keep the processing simple I captured 3 exposures and processed them in Adobe Lightroom and Photomatix HDR software.