PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

And I have just viewed the download. I have trouble putting my thoughts into words. We really do need to forget for a moment this earthly world of ours and this is a perfect way of doing it!

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

When you consider this beautiful comet would get lost in that tiny turquoise nebula, we start to get a little perspective about how immense this universe is.

RonM12 Loc: Washington State

Very nice!

Gampa

Wow ... great detail!

crafterwantabe Loc: Mn

Good one

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi John
Thanks for checking out the photo. Yep 70 pictures each 1 minute long. The images where taken guiding on the stars, afterwards I made 2 sets of pictures. One with the stars removed and on with the comet removed. I then stacked the comet with the comet aligned on each shot and then stacked the star images with the stars aligned. The images where then recombined to produce a single image with no trailing of the stars or the comet (Note the comet moved quite noticeably relative to the background stars during the 70+ minutes it took to get the exposures. The sky was smoky and some high clouds at the time of the shots where taken so I had to really stretch the image to pull out the detail, this was helped by the large number of exposures. I wanted to see how much of the tail I could get. ( I will see if I can make a movie of the 70 images to show the comet motion). With this many exposures I found that there are a number of galaxies also caught in the image, I'm currently work a version of the image with those that are large enough to be seen as more than just a dot at this image scale labeled with an enlarged image of each superimposed on the picture (hopefully later today).

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi PaulBrit
Thanks for the comment. I got sidetracked yesterday but expect to release the image with the small galaxies caught in the picture labeled and with an associated enlarged image of each galaxy superimposed on the picture released later today.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi jaymatt
Thanks for the Thumbs up.

OneShot1 Loc: Wichita, KS, USA

Best photo I've seen. Superb work!

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi alberio
Thanks for checking out the image. I was trying to see how much of the tail I could get. Indeed the planetary nebula is the Owl nebula (also known as M97 ,NGC 3587 and PLN 148+57.1). I'm currently working on a version of the image with labels for this nebula and a bunch of galaxies that are visible in the image that are more than just dots. I'm also going to superimpose an enlarged image of each labeled object with the label, I got side tracked yesterday and didn't finish this project but hopefully will get it out today.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi PaulBrit
I agree this is a great way to think and view the universe we live in, plus the it is challenging and fun to do so.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi alberio
Absolutely true. There are at least 50 galaxies visible in the image (along with millions not visible here), each containing billions stars and planets. Around 16 of them appear as more than just a dot and I'll be labeling those hopefully later today.

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi RonM12
Thanks for checking out the image

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi Gampa
Thanks for the comment and checking out the image

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Hi crafterwantabe
Thanks for the comment and checking out the image