DSLR Holmes, coma + tail

[vicent_peris]

Hello all,

after some months without making astrophotography, my friend Jose Luis Lamadrid and return with a photo of the so photographed comet Holmes.

It's DSLR photo (Canon 350D) with a Tak Epsilon 180ED. We have made different exposures: 4x10', 26x1' and 30x15", for a total exposure of 73'30". The comet was photographed at our habitual observing site, on the Javalambre mountains, in Teruel (Spain), and at 2020 meters above sea level.

The processing has been very hard, so this is a first version... but we've decided to publish it because its actuality. As a bonus, it is the APOD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) today.

Calibration was made with DeepSkyStacker and all the processing with PixInsight.

The images:

800 pixels wide:


Full resolution:
http://datastore.astrofoto.es/holmesmax.jpg

We're very happy with the overall result... it's clearly visible the "bubble effect" of the two comas, and it shows the dynamic range from the nucleus to the faint ionic tail.


Regards,
Vicent.

[David Serrano]

This pic is just amazing! I'd like to note your elaborate treatment of the stars, to which you did pay attention even when nobody's going to look at them .

Congrats for the APOD, too .

[Juan Conejero]

Absolutely wonderful image, and a well deserved APOD, Vicent and José Luis.

I'm sure this is just the first one of a large series

Here is a permanent link to the APOD page:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071105.html

Congratulations!!!  8)  

[LD]

Vicent,
Quite amazing and certainly a very different take on the comet. Can you share our processing steps? Thanks,
Larry

[GABRI 9555]

hola,
felicidades a los dos por esta fantastica imagen , un color exquisito y habeis cuidado hasta las estrellas cuando el protagonista es el cometa  :wink: , fantastica , un apod bien merecido sin duda , seria interesante saber los pasos seguidos en el proceso , sobre todo como subir el nivel de la crominancia sin saturar el fondo ni las pequeñas escalas ??

[Jordi Gallego]

Hi Vicent and José Luis,

really wonderfull image, I like it very much :wink:

Congratulations for the APOD

Regards
Jordi

[Luc Coiffier]

Congratulations Vicent and José Luis
That's a well deserved APOD!

I couldn't resist to post it to our French board (I hope you don't mind).

Clear skies,
Luc

[Carlos Milovic]

I cannot wait to see the reprocessed version Congratulations, and keep the good job comming!

[Maxi]

Felicidades a Jose Luis y a ti  :wink:

Saludos, Maxi

[C. Sonnenstein]

Congratulations José Luis and Vicent.

That's a wonderful picture that shows a very large effective dynamic range.

[Brian]

That is a gorgeous color!  It looks like a Christmas ornament.