Observation by Robert James Stuart: Comet 41P

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Robert James Stuart

Observer

Robert James Stuart

Observed

2017 Mar 24 - 22:11

Uploaded

2017 Sep 02 - 12:01

Objects

41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak

Equipment

Celestron CN-8 f5 Newtonian
EQ6 Pro mount
Nikon D800

Exposure

iso 640 60s x 20 hand stacked

Location

Rhayader Mid Wales

Target name

Comet 41P Tuttle - Giacobini-Kreisler

Title

Comet 41P

About this image

Last comet I photographed was (years ago) Hale-Bopp, but 41P was a lot smaller, fainter and faster moving, and harder to find. Motion between each of 20 frames (60s long) was quite obvious and when cycling through the sequence produced a nice moving video. The 20 images were manually stacked in Photoshop CC and processed exposure, contrast, vibrance,saturation and clarity.

Files associated with this observation

Comet P51 24-03-2017.jpg (1.5 MB)

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Comments

Denis Buczynski, 2017 Sep 02 - 12:39 UTC

Hi Robert,

Nice comet image, however I do not regognise the designation you have given for this object. P51 is not an official designation, can you clarlfy which conet this is.

Denis

Robert James Stuart, 2017 Sep 02 - 17:41 UTC

Just noticed error thank you, it is Comet Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak. Hope this is better.

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