Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
Comet Iwamoto was at its closest to Earth this morning, so I headed out to dark skies southwest of Brisbane early this morning to photograph it. This is a FAST comet, so even though I only had 20 minutes worth of exposures I had to align them to the comet rather then the background stars,
20 x 60 second exposures at 200mm, f/4 and 3200 iso, stached in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom.
There is a faint tail visible extending towards 11 o'clock.
Comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)
Comet Iwamoto was at its closest to Earth this morning, so I headed out to dark skies southwest of Brisbane early this morning to photograph it. This is a FAST comet, so even though I only had 20 minutes worth of exposures I had to align them to the comet rather then the background stars,
20 x 60 second exposures at 200mm, f/4 and 3200 iso, stached in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Lightroom.
There is a faint tail visible extending towards 11 o'clock.