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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy

Visible is the distinctive green glow, as well as an extremely faint dust tail that took up the most processing time trying to bring detail out in. Stars are trailed because the comet moved over the course of the imaging session and I focused on it during frame stacking. 22x 30 second exposures @ ISO 800. Scope was Orion ST-80 and camera was Canon 1100D. In camera dark frame subtraction, and during post processing was the first time I used flat calibration images. I also made an animation of the comet's motion against background stars over the course of the night here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAl66bn1owg

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