Comet C2012 S1 ISON
About this object
On 1 Oct Comet ISON will pass Mars at a distance of 10.5 million KM, closer than it will ever get to earth. This view taken just prior to sunrise on Sat 28 Sep shows ISON as still a fairly dim object. This image is a combination of three 5min exposures taken at 356mm with a 80mm Stellarvue APO refractor just as the comet cleared the walls of my observatory.
Image Details
- Optics : Stellarvue SV80ST2 Triplet Refractor @f4.8
- Mount: Mountain Instruments MI-250
- Camera: QSI 583
- Filters: Astrodon 31mm luminance filtet
- Exposure: L: 3x5min bin 1x1
- Camera/Mount Control: Maxim DL 5.23, CCD Commander
- Processing: PixInsight 1.8 Ripley
- Location: Stark Bayou Observatory, Ocean Springs, MS
- Date: 28 Sep 13
