This video was taken of the comet PANSTARRS C/2017 T2, near Ursa Major
Imaging Details
- Luminance: 90 images at 60 seconds with 4 minute pause between frames
- Imaging Dates: 5/8/2020
Notes
- This video was taken during a full moon. For the first part of the video, you can make out a little of the comet’s tail, which occurred before the full moon rose.
- The flashes within the video occurred when high, thin clouds rolled through
- Each frame with the video was processed as follows
- Bias, darks and flat corrected
- Star aligned
- Cropped
- Automatic background extraction
- Noise reduction with multiscale linear transform
- Video generated with Blink process
