{"id":5946,"date":"2021-05-28T04:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2021-05-28T04:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:35:37","slug":"first-image-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/first-image-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"My first image of Comet Leonard and Crescent Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being so busy lately,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve somewhat neglected my blog for a while, so it&#8217;s time to take it up again.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of the 25th of May, we finally got prospects of a reasonably clear evening.<br \/>\nDespite the late time of the sky getting dark, and an almost full Moon, I decided to get the scope set up and see if I can capture an image of Comet C\/2020 A2 (Leonard).<\/p>\n<p>This comet could give us a great show later in the year. (Where have we heard that before?).<br \/>\nSee my YouTube video below describing what we might expect from the comet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SHE7PoJ-D3k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I contacted my mate Kev, so he popped round to see the ASIAIR in action.<\/p>\n<p>I had another problem with the Off Axis Guider, so ditched that for this session, guiding with a 50mm guide scope.<\/p>\n<p>Got all set up before The Moon got too high and bright, then sent the scope towards Merak to calibrate the position.<br \/>\nI then used Sky Safari to GOTO the comet, which wasn&#8217;t located too far from that first magnitude star.<br \/>\nWe quickly identified that we were looking at the correct star field so the comet should be right in the centre.<\/p>\n<p>So I rattled off a number of short 30-second subs, not knowing how fast the comet was moving.<br \/>\n(I will do longer subs next time).<\/p>\n<p>Once stacked, I got this very nice image below, showing the comet near some very faint galaxies.<br \/>\nThe comet is about 16th or 17th magnitude, so has a long way to go before it gives us a good show.<br \/>\nBut I was well pleased to capture the comet so early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Once I finished that, The Moon was getting extremely bright, so I switched to the Hydrogen Alpha filter and went to the location of NGC6888, The Crescent Nebula in Cygnus.<br \/>\nThe resulting image is shown below.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a very enjoyable evening, and great fun to catch up with Kev again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5948 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-765x1024.png\" alt=\"Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525\" width=\"399\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-765x1024.png 765w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-768x1028.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-1148x1536.png 1148w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-157x210.png 157w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-600x803.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-45x60.png 45w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525-67x90.png 67w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Comet-C2020A1-Leonard-20210525.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5949 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-1024x676.png\" alt=\"Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001\" width=\"511\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-1024x676.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-210x139.png 210w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-600x396.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-91x60.png 91w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001-136x90.png 136w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crescent-Nebula-20210525-Autosave001.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being so busy lately,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve somewhat neglected my blog for a while, so it&#8217;s time to take it up again. On the evening of the 25th of May, we finally got prospects of a reasonably clear evening. Despite the late time of the sky getting dark, and an almost full Moon, I decided to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"My first image of Comet Leonard and Crescent Nebula - Star-Gazing","description":"Being so busy lately,\u00a0 I've somewhat neglected my blog for a while, so it's time to take it up again. 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