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Dec 16.52 2004 (Comet Machholz)

Dec 16.52 2004 (Comet Machholz)

10 x 3 min at ISO400 (modified 300D) with Takahashi Epsilon E160 (FOV 2.6 x 1.9 degrees) . It took me a while to get this image processed as I could not achieve an even background (I assumed the poor transparency with thin cloud were the culprit). However, the uneven background - including the vertical dark lane through the centre of the image - may actually be real. Thus the above image is the result of fairly simple processing steps i.e dark/flat calibration -> additive stack -> white balance/sky background offset removed -> DDP -> Gamma -> extra saturation -> resized and converted to jpeg. I also did not track on the comet (it is actually trailed - but the core is saturated so that it is not too obvious). All processing in IRIS v4.18.


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