Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)
Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15), John
Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15)
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Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15)

Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15), John
Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15)
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Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15)

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The original is a single 2 min. exposure at 800 ISO. I finally captured the tail!

After researching, I figured out how to stack comet images in DSS, so the final image is a stack of 22 exposures of 2 min. each at 800 ISO. Really, I don't know which I like best. The stacked image had a lot more noise and was so shifted towards the red that it was impossible to get it completely color balanced correctly. It also had a bad artifact beside the comet core, which I assume was somehow the result of the DSS stacking algorithm. I had to retouch to remove this, but this image is much brighter and should make really nice prints on paper.

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Comet Lovejoy 2014 Q2 (1-18-15), John