Comet Jacques

Initial image of comet C/2014 E2 Jacques

Here is the initial (no post processing to remove noise and bad pixel artifacts) image of the nucleus of comet Jacques taken on August 26, 2014. This is the result of 60 individual 30 second images of the comet taken through a Celestron EdgeHD-11" telescope at prime focus (108x magnification).

The dimmer dotted lines are bad pixels. The brighter dotted line is the result of a star image drifting in the field of view since the stacked images were centered on the comet and the comet was moving pretty rapidly during the 30 minutes of total imaging time.

I will be removing noise and bad pixels later and will repost the hopefully improved image.

Comet C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
Celestron EdgeHD-11" (prime focus)/Canon 50D
60x30sec ISO-1600 (30min total)