Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 on Jan. 17, 2015
I've got a lot to learn about astrophotography post-processing, but this was the best I could do to preserve the faint tail. I don't know if it is wishful thinking or real, but it looks to me like the tail can be seen back almost to below the Pleiades. This was taken with a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 on a Pentax K-5. A few exposures were stacked using DeepSkyStacker (which I'm also just learning to use). The camera and lens were on a Vixen Polarie for tracking.
Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 on Jan. 17, 2015
I've got a lot to learn about astrophotography post-processing, but this was the best I could do to preserve the faint tail. I don't know if it is wishful thinking or real, but it looks to me like the tail can be seen back almost to below the Pleiades. This was taken with a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 on a Pentax K-5. A few exposures were stacked using DeepSkyStacker (which I'm also just learning to use). The camera and lens were on a Vixen Polarie for tracking.