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Lovejoy's tail, 50 minutes apart, erdmanpe

Lovejoy's tail, 50 minutes apart

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Lovejoy's tail, 50 minutes apart, erdmanpe

Lovejoy's tail, 50 minutes apart

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While the data isn't that good, I was impressed by the variation in Comet Lovejoy's tail over such a short (~50 minutes) time period. These images are each 20 subframes of 30 seconds (so about 10 minutes of integration for each panel). Tracking on the stars, but aligned on the comet afterwards in Maxim, with an SDmask combine to suppress the stars a bit. Intermediate groups of images that I took show the evolution of the changes between these two frames. Baader Luminance filter. Log-log stretch in Maxim to concentrate on the tail.

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Lovejoy's tail, 50 minutes apart, erdmanpe