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Feb 23, 2009 12:59 |  #1

Crossing fingers for a clear & not quite as cold night, I'm going to give old Lulin a try.

I understand it's moving pretty quickly so I'm wonder what people's preference is, the comet being static and letting the stars streak a little or keeping the stars static and have the comet streak.

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Feb 23, 2009 16:16 |  #2

I think if the tail is faint then the only way you will see it is if you have the comet fixed and the stars allowed to trail.
Looks like it needs at least 120 secs to show much detail as I couldn't see any tail (or antitail) at 30 secs exposure at 1600Iso.
It moves very fast (relatively) even in 15 mins!


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Feb 28, 2009 07:32 as a reply to  @ mbscad's post |  #3

The last couple versions of Deep Sky Stacker, have a feature for processing comets. I haven't used it, but it will hold the comet still while allowing the stars to trail. Might be worth looking into.


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