{"id":11363,"date":"2013-11-16T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2013-11-15T08:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:24:29","slug":"postcard-from-the-universe-c2013-r1-lovejoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11363","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Universe – C\/2013 R1 Lovejoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had set the alarm clock for 0230 to get up with plenty of time to setup and take comet photos. What greeted me was a sheet of cloud, an all to familiar sight lately. I did not reset the alarm and went back to sleep. A couple hours later I found myself lying awake again, realizing I would probably not fall back to sleep I got up to look outside. To my surprise Orion shown brightly over the street.<\/p>\n

Is there enough time to setup and shoot before dawn?<\/p>\n

I rushed the alignment, hoping to setup in less than half an hour. Things did not go smoothly… The EOS utility in the computer did not recognize the 6D, I need to update the drivers. A thin cloud stubbornly sat in front of Polaris, I think I got the polar alignment, the star was very dim on the polar ‘scope. Even when exposures seemed to be going smoothly I they were not. I find out later the auto-guider had moved itself to a hot pixel, probably when a bit of cloud passed through. In the rush I did not get a dark frame for the guider, most of the frames show small guide errors.<\/p>\n

One not so bad bit of serendipity… The Hubble Space Telescope went right through one of the frames.<\/p>\n

Despite all I did get an image of the comet. It should have been better, rushing astrophotography is not a good plan…<\/p>\n

\"C\/2013<\/a>
Comet C\/2013 R1 Lovejoy on Nov 15, 2013. Canon 6D with the AT6RC and a 0.8x focal reducer. 12 x 60s at ISO 6400.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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