Thursday, September 4, 2014

Comet Jacques - Coma

It turns out that there was just a bit too much noise in the high ISO images I took of comet Jacques back on August 26th. Stacking and processing them in PixInsight revealed a slightly better view of the nucleus/coma of the comet, but the improvement was marginal at best. If there is a tail in there I didn't capture it.

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IC 1396 - featuring the Elephant Trunk Nebula

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