Comet C/2014 Q2
I find it ironic that Messier’s catalog was created with the purpose to identify “non-comets”.
Equipment:
Refractor, 71 mm aperture, 350 mm focal length
Reducer (none, 5-element astrograph)
QSI683 CCD (Kodak KAF8300 sensor)
QSI integrated Filter Wheel (1.25” Baader filters)
QSI integrated off-axis guider with Lodestar CCD
Paramount MX, Berlebach tripod
Software: (Windows 7)
Sequence Generator Pro, ASCOM drivers
PHD2 autoguider software
PixInsight (Mac OSX)
Exposure: (LRGB)
LRGB bin 2; 4 x 120 seconds each
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet of about 10,000 years that was discovered in August 2014 by Terry Lovejoy. It continued to brighten to magnitude 4 in January 2015, making it one of the brightest comets ...
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