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Copyright: Maurizio Camerin and Nicla Camerin
Title: 12P/Pons–Brooks March 13 2024, 19:48pm-20:43pm Province of Forli-Cesena, Italy
Date: March 13, 2024
After more than two months of fog and rain Maurizio saw that central Italy was going to have a good weather. He took a day of off from work and drove 400 km towards the Apennines, a place called La Faggia at 740 masl, on a hill where the view was clear to capture the comet 12P Pons-Brooks. That was the first comet of four that he would catch that night.
My brother Maurizio and I (her sister) share the astrophotography passion. Maurizio is in ‘charge’ of the capture and I process his data. The stacks were done in DSS, one for obtain a base stars and other for a comet-only stack. The postprocess is made in Photoshop. Other programs and tools are used for reduce noise.
Since the first stack we was happy to see many details of this wonderful comet alongside the protoplasma tail and upper parte side of the head. Is really a joy in the heart to see it. A Third stack of the best frames (12) was done for try get more details which turn assertive. Then was combined the previos stack worked in klayers a different percentage and finally add the base stars for get the final image.
Thanks for your attention
Best Regards
Maurizio Camerin
Nicla Camerin
Astrobin fullframe image https://www.astrobin.com/full/f5skw7/0/
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File size: 12.1 MB
RA center: 00h44m35s.3
DEC center: +32°36′07″
Pixel scale: 1.376 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 91.616 degrees
Field radius: 1.549 degrees
Place:La Faggia, Province of Forli-Cesena, Central Italy
Lat: 43° 57′ 46,8” N
Long: 012° 00′ 25,5” E
Above Sea Level: 781,57m
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 200P
Imaging Camera: Canon EOS Ra
Mount: iOptron CEM70
Filter: Optolong L-Pro 2″
Software: Adobe Photoshop · Distinct Solutions Ltd Astro Photography Tool (APT) · Luc Coiffier DeepSkyStacker (DSS) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Russell Croman Astrophotography NoiseXTerminator · Russell Croman Astrophotography StarXTerminator · Topaz Labs DeNoise AI
Guiding Telescope Or Lenses: Orion 50mm Mini Guide scope
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini