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Comet Lovejoy Closeup

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I have been waiting for Comet Lovejoy to rise high enough away from the sun to be able to do a deep sky image of it. I finally got that chance a couple of days ago. You can see how faint it has become against the plane of the Milky Way. The bright star at the top left of the frame is Alpha Centauri which along with Proxima Centauri (not visable to the unaided eye) is the closest star system to our own Sun at a mere 4.24 light years away. Who's coming with me???

Date: 31/12/2011
Time: 3am
Camera: Canon 60D
Lens: Canon 50mm F/1.8
Aperture: F/2.8
Exposure times: 16 x 240 seconds (Total Exposure Time of 1 hour and 4 minutes)
ISO 800
Camera mounted on an NEQ6 Pro Goto computerised telescope mount.
Images stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Final Processing in Photoshop Elements 8.0

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This makes me wish for a starship of my own to explore with....Your eargument is invalid