Comet Imaging Session - January 16, 2015

Despite not so good weather condition, ALPers James Kevin Ty, Christopher Louie Lu, Edgar Ang and Edge Lat proceeded to PAGASA Observatory at UP Diliman to try to observe Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy under a light polluted area. When they arrived at the site , the sky was partly clear with lots of fast passing clouds. James brought along his Canon EOS 500D DSLR with Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS Lens set at 400mm f/5.6 mounted on Kenko Sky Memo-R star tracker. Edgar also brought along his Vixen Polarie star tracker mounted on Edge's Canon 60D DSLR. They were able to image a few shots before clouds finally rolled in to hamper their imaging efforts. Nevertheless, I was able to do away with 3 x 1min exposure of the comet. Aside from observing the comet, they were also able to observe Jupiter with its 4 Jovian moons using PAGASA's 7" f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.