Friday, October 25, 2013

Beautiful Comet ISON Timelapse and Recent Images

Beautiful Comet ISON Timelapse and Recent Images:
Comet ISON, as seen on October 21, 2013 from Marion, Ohio, USA, using a QHY9 monochrome CCD camera  and TEC 140 F7, 5 inch Refractor telescope. Credit and copyright: Cliff Spohn and Terry Hancock.
Comet ISON, as seen on October 21, 2013 from Marion, Ohio, USA, using a QHY9 monochrome CCD camera and TEC 140 F7, 5 inch Refractor telescope. Credit and copyright: Cliff Spohn and Terry Hancock.
This beautiful new view of Comet ISON comes from a collaborative effort between astrophotographers Cliff Spohn in Ohio and Terry Hancock in Michigan, taken on October 21, 2013. “The first time in almost two weeks that we have had a break in the clouds and rain we could not miss this rare opportunity to capture ISON using Cliff’s equipment,” said Terry via email. “Credit goes to Cliff for capturing the object while I did the calibration, stacking in CCDStack post processing in CS5 and video editing.”
You can see a timelapse video below, covering 93 minutes of imaging, again on October 21. It’s obvious ISON is still intact and it continues to bright, as it is currently about magnitude 9.
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