As everyone's telescope is pointed to the comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard), I tried to something different by shooting 4P/Faye, taking advantage of its position on 28 Dec 2021.
In order to capture the whole scene, I used a widefield rig, which made the comet to appear very small in the image, and this is why you can check
Revision B where I manually marked it in case you can't see the small comet among the starfield.
At the night of the observation, the comet had a coma of 3.5' arc and was shining at a magnitude of 11.4 according to the
COBS, so pretty small and faint, but I still really liked how it showed up in the frames.
You may notice some remaining satellite trails at somewhere near the Rosette Nebula, and that's because I had a lot of satellites in
all of my frames, and because my observation was only 1 hour long, it was pretty hard for PixInsight to reject it completely. I also tried to remove it a little bit by hand, but as you can see at
Revision D all of the frames contained satellites.
I really enjoyed this Field Of View and to image a different comet, and I really hope you liked it too! Constructive criticism, comments and suggestions are more than welcome in the comments section.
Acquired by CHI-5 telescope system from Telescope Live
Telescope: Nikon 200 F/2
Camera: FLI ML16200
Filters: Astrodon LRGB 2GEN
Mount: 10 Micron GM1000HPs
Location: El Sauce Observatory - Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
L: 3x300"
R: 3x300"
G: 3x300"
B: 3x300"
Total Integration Time: 60' or 1 hour.
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