J McBride wrote:
Here is Comet Holmes update from last night. I used a 200mm Olympus lens
with my modified 400D. Total time is 12 minutes. I got a new monitor and
so I am learning how to process with a flatscreen. I had a CRT before.

Joe

Stars seem too red though the comet doesn't. I still keep a CRT for
image processing. I see into the extreme dark and light regions better
with them. Though my flat screens are several years old and today's may
be better.

You picked up NGC 1245 at the lower right of the comet. I tried to get
a shot of it with the 14" through a sucker hole but it closed before I
got the green and blue data. Tried again for those colors another night
but saved them in a wrong directory. Just haven't found where as yet.
Also the sucker hole closed on the blue frame so it is only half
intensity of the others and foggy looking. So I still need to redo
that. Anyway that open cluster is about half my fov so the comet is way
too big for me any more!

By day it has been fairly clear but by night clouds roll in. I have now
a half dozen objects with some data as I go from one to the other as the
sucker holes move around. Get 10 minutes of this and 20 of that. Not
enough for any one as yet I don't think. At least not that doesn't have
a lot of cloud fog in it. Way cloudier than normal this year. Nothing
for three darks of the moon now.

Rick

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