I've been lucky enough to observe the comet visually in 8x40 binos a couple of times. It's been very faint but easy(ish!) to spot each time.
This was really fun to image, with just a few seconds showing the comet nucleus and 60s showing a clear shape with the coma and very faint tail.
The moon was quite bright and washed out the sky a little but conditions were better than the night before (28th) where I'd taken some data that had clouds all through it! These are slightly cropped images from ~430mm focal length so a little close and not showing the full extent of the tail. I was thinking of using the RedCat but wasn't sure about an LRGB workflow for this.
A little poor framing perhaps on my part to chop the dust tail but I'd hoped for as much fainter ion tail as I could get. Thanks
@Thilo for helping clear up the tails for me - really appreciated.
The main image here is a composite of the star field and comet stacks.
Revision B is the comet registration option within AstroPixelProcessor - it gives a great feeling of movement in the image and is very easy to use.
Revision C is a 60s sub, resampled to reduce noise.
Thanks for looking.
Captured with ASIAIR Pro, pre-processed in APP and processed in PixInsight.
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