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Comet 2014/Q2 Lovejoy taken from Siding Springs, Australia using the Tzec Maun Telescope. I only could use 6 x 1 minute of data (I had a bit more, but somehow there were many high clouds I think introducing some heavy gradients). It’s one of my first comet images like this, but there is still a …

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This is my best Jupiter image until now I think. Yesterday I caught about 8 RGB series with my C11 and a 2.5x powermate of Jupiter consisting of 3 movies of 20s @ 60 fps. Using Winjupos I derotated them and combined all of them which gave this result. I’m astonished how good the seeing …

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168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet in the solar system. The comet originally named P/1998 W2 returned in 2005 and got the temporary name P/2005 N2. The comet had its perihelion on 1 October 2012, and was expected to reach about apparent magnitude 15.2. It showed that it was much brighter, reaching a magnitude between 9 …

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