209P/LINEAR 5-21-14 Clouded out after 4 minutes

A sucker hole opened up and I thought I'd have a chance to make a short
movie of this comet that may or may not have left debris we'll see as
the meteor shower the morning of the 24th (UT) in my part of the world
anyway. It's heading south fast. It will be down near the celestial
equator in a few days but was in Ursa Major heading south rather rapidly.

I got 4 one minute frames tracking on the comet before the clouds
totally closed up. The second frame was only usable for the first 15
seconds or so. The third was seeing photons only the last 5 seconds.
Fourth frame was fine for about 50 seconds before going dark. So while
this is a 4 minute exposure only 2 minutes 10 second of data was
collected and much of that dimmed by clouds. Considering conditions
this turned out far better than I could have hoped. I'll try again
weather permitting. But it was to be clear last night and except for
about 10 minutes (I spent most of that waiting for it to get dark) it
was totally overcast with sporadic rain. These 4 frames were taken a
good hour before the end of astronomical twilight!

I hope for good skies the morning of the 24. Forecast is good but it
was good for this night too.

The image was taken and displayed at 1.5" per pixel binned 3x3.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x1'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick
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