Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on January 17th, 2015

<< Back to gallery

Photographer:

Joel Tonyan

Location of Photo:

Calhan, Colorado

Date/Time of photo:

10pm on January 17th, 2015

Equipment:

Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 23 90-second light frames and 23 90-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 23 flat and 53 bias frames.

Description:

This is my first time imaging a comet through a telescope. What a beautiful comet! Besides imaging and observing it with a telescope, I also viewed it with binoculars. I could detect it naked eye as a smudge to the right of the Pleiades.

Website:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tychosnose/