Comet Garradd
In the summer of 2011 I imaged Comet Garradd and the globular cluster Messier 15. This week the comet flew by the globular cluster Messier 92 in Hercules. Unfortunately I missed the chance to frame both objects by a day or two.
Date: February 5, 2012
Constellation: Hercules
Location: Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC
Optics: TeleVue NP-127is used at f/5.2 with large field corrector
Mount: Paramount ME, guided using PhD
Camera: Hutech modified Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure: 22 light frames of 180 seconds, ISO 800
Processing: Light frames calibrated with dark and flat frames in ImagesPlus. Light frames normalized and combined using MinMax Excluded. Image cropped.