Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic, Okke_Dillen
C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic
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C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic

C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic, Okke_Dillen
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C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic

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...or, what do you make of a series of frames that actually has been ruined by clouds: create a surrealistic painting! .... hehe ;-)

The comet is kept as accurate as possible, though ;)

This cut is from the same original image like the previous landscape version. In this portrait orientation I could include that funny darker "relict-e-fact" of a cloud pass giving the picture an even more surrealistic look than it already had.

The look comes from three things:

1. the clouds were moving pretty much during the entire session, 103 frames distributed over several minutes. Only frames were selected where the comet is at least "almost" visible so, 64 remained.

2. for stacking the outlier rejection was set to be rather restrictive

3. perform a background neutralization as you always do with a regular deep sky image

As a result, the clouds looked as they look here: fuzzy and mystical, almost like airbrushed, and the comet got pronounced accurately (actually much better than I expected from the single frames, though). A little ACDNR, a little color saturation, voila.

Although this was not exactly what I expected a comet image to look like (lol), I was kind of pleased with that look :-)

So, landscape or portrait, what do you think?

Cheers

Okke

PS: time is given in UTC

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C/2020-F3 Neowise going surrealistic, Okke_Dillen