Celebrating the near bypass comet, and thanks to PixInSight new CometAlignment process that came out recently, I decided to re-process my Neowise comet data back from July 2020.
It was a beautiful trip to capture that comet, back then we were a few months into COVID period so no traffic and everyone was staying home. I left to Pointe Aux lighthouse at around midnight, I got there around 3am and the comet tail was barely visible on the horizon, so I setup the Canon 6D with 135mm on a tracking mount and also had my Olympus mirrorless camera to capture a wide field timelapse, on the way there I stopped half way to capture the rising Moon.
https://youtu.be/Qa2yprlDrZEThis was a very tricky data to process in the first place, because it was too close to the horizon and Aurora was also active that morning, but with the new techniques that I learned and acquired during these years, I gave it a try and I really wasn't disappointed.
I ended up capturing 158x15sec subs at F/2.3 of the comet and processing was mainly done in PixInSight and Luminar4, the stars were added back from a single sub where the Aurora was visible and that is what the reddish band was. I hope you like it.
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