Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Comet Lulin
Two panel mosaic, the bright planet, in upper part of image, is Saturn. -
It seems, that there is lots of ionized gas in the comet Lulin.
I was litle sceptical about using narrowband filters to a broadband target, like a comet.
After all, there was plenty of signal from all three bands, S-II, H-a and O-III, there is even large differenses between differnt bands (look for the last image of this post)
Colors are mixed isn HST (Hubble Space Telescope) palette.
With extermely fast f1.8 200mm lens I used exposures from UHC-s filter's 30s
to 600s for Hydrogen alpha filter.
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comet with starfield The field of view is about five degrees!
The tail in the image is about 2.2 degrees
A starless version
This is a fast comet, exposure time about an hour.
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Eguipments:
Canon EF 200mm @ f1.8
camera, QHY9
Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding
Exposures, H-a, S-II, O-III and UHC, total five hours.
Saturn & Comet Lulin as a Stereo Pair
Saturn is a bright planet in the upper part of the image. There is two moons visible next to saturn, Lapetus (upper one) and the Hyperion. Other moons can not be seen, since they are under the extence glow from the Saturn.
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Parallel Vision version 
Cross Vision version Comet Lulin animation
Click the image to see it animated.-
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Animation of Comet Lulin shows its movement in an one hour.
25 x 100s exposures with UHC-s filter.
Colors are imaged with H-a, S-II and O-III filters and HST-palette is used.
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