Imaging telescopes or lenses: Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.4
Imaging cameras: Canon EOS M
Mounts: Homemade Barndoor tracker
Software: DeepSkyStacker · Adobe Lightroom 4 · FITSWork
Dates:Jan. 20, 2015
Frames: 99x30"
Integration: 0.8 hours
Avg. Moon age: 29.46 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.01%
Astrometry.net job: 3578310
Resolution: 1292x858
Comet Lovejoy - some exposures I snuck in during bad conditions in my light-polluted back yard, before the fog shut things down. The result was better than expected!
First light with a beautiful old 58mm f/1.4 Minolta lens. Lots of aberration wide open, much better @f/2.0, pretty sharp @ f/2.4, and very sharp from f/2.8 on, though there is still a bit of coma in the extreme corners. I shot this at f/2.8
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