Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Columba (Col)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy (ANIMATED GIF), Michael Southam
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C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy (ANIMATED GIF)

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I've been planning on making an animated gif with a transiting comet for a while. C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy seemed a good opportunity.

I planned the frame prior using SkySafari for Lovejoy to start bottom left and finish top right with around 150 x 30 second frames. As it turned out I only got about half way through the sequence for 3 reasons. Firstly the comet was approaching power lines and trees, it was well past the meridian so my mount was about to flip and low level Cirrus clouds were moving in from the South.

I decided to add the technical details, time, location and grid during processing. The aim there was to make the image more useful, not sure who I expect to make use of it.

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C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy (ANIMATED GIF), Michael Southam