[BAA Comets] 2014Q2 AVI from last night

[Nick James]

Peter,

Very nice timelapse. I can see we are going to need to include videos in 
the section archive! I'll work on getting that done ASAP.

I've been doing something similar but have been writing some scripts to 
make things automatic since I have having to do things manually. Tonight 
I have been imaging with the same instrument since 1800UT and it is 
still going. My timelapse so far is here:

http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2015/2014q2_20150118_ndj.gif

Each frame is 10x120s with a FoV of 1.9x1.0 deg, N up. I'm using a 
William Optics Megrez 72 refractor (430mm FL, f/5.6) and an SXVR-H18 CCD 
camera.

Not much going on with that ion tail tonight but it is still waving 
around in the solar breeze. I'm hoping for a decent disconnection event 
and a long, clear night...

Nick.

> Inspired by images of tail structure changes in comet 2014Q2 I imaged the comet for 2 hours last night.
> I took 24no x 300 second exposures using a 100mm f5.4 refractor and ST8300 CCd between 20.32hrs and 22.33hrs.
> I stacked them in groups of 3 and compiled them into an 8 frame AVI.
> The AVI shows some tail ray motion, (together with passing light cloud!)
> The images where calibrated, contrast stretched and aligned but not processed in any other way.
> North is up and the field of view is approximately 2 degrees wide.
> See the AVI here http://www.astromania.co.uk/2014q2_lovejoy_video.htm
> I will stack and process some of the images for the Section image archive.
>
> The sky was slightly milky here in SE Essex last night but I'm convinced I could just detect about a degree of tail in 11x80 binos. My observing site is an urban area and light polluted.
>
> Peter Carson
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