Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is currently the Hot item in the sky and the astronomy community, specially the Amateur astronomers and Astrophotographers are all literally "up in arms" at the comet. Visual astronomers have dusted and cleaned their Big guns while Astrophotographers, including myself are training our small, medium and large aperture scopes at the comet for that "perfect pose".
I captured Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy about 10 days agousing my friends Canon 7D, Canon 100mm F/2.8, 24x180s at ISO 1600 tracked using my Astrotrac, Processed using Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CS5.
A Star chart ( courtesy Sky & Telescope Magazine) can be used above to locate the comet.
Astrophotographers can either use
a) The NASA JPL Horizons Ephimeris generator to obtain more accurate data.
OR
b) I use Carte Du Ciel software to control my Equatorial mount and this software can be updated with the come data using the minor planet center database.
I captured Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy about 10 days agousing my friends Canon 7D, Canon 100mm F/2.8, 24x180s at ISO 1600 tracked using my Astrotrac, Processed using Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CS5.
A Star chart ( courtesy Sky & Telescope Magazine) can be used above to locate the comet.
Astrophotographers can either use
a) The NASA JPL Horizons Ephimeris generator to obtain more accurate data.
OR
b) I use Carte Du Ciel software to control my Equatorial mount and this software can be updated with the come data using the minor planet center database.