Thanks Joe, You can probably see in the shot that the tail is pointed at M-71. And if I really, REALLY stretch the image I can see that the tail was covering the cluster. But that made the image so contrasty and the comet and cluster so overblown that it just made an awful image. Surely there are those out there with bigger scopes and better processing skills who will post great looking shots with the tail enveloping the cluster. BTW, the image I posted was raw. No dark, no flat. I did no processing at all except for the conversion to JPG. patrick On 27 Aug 2011, at 03:07, Joe Bauman wrote:
Nice pairing, Patrick. I had thought from the Starry Night planetarium program that the comet's tail would cross M71 most of the night, but I can see it's not long enough. I think Starry Night just guessed at the tail's dimensions and they overestimated it. Still a cool view, though. -- Joe