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Did had my first try on a comet last night: C/2017 T2 (PANSTARSS). I had no idea that it would be moving SO fast through my FOV!
I left SharCap on for capturing and did other things in the meantime. An hour later I checked and the comet was long gone out of view.
So not very much material to work with to stack an image. But thought it fun and interesting to make a short video
The actual duration is 23 minutes.

See the clip here: https://youtu.be/jhVCZJPK4_k

Equipment:
Ioptron CEM25EC mount, no guiding
Meade LX65 8” f/10 ACF OTA
Optec Lepus Standard 0.62x reducer
Baader Neodymium filter
Zwo ASI385MC camera

Capture with SharpCap: 35 x 40 seconds, gain 180 (of 600), 100 flats, 10 darks.
Used PIPP to convert FITS into AVI.
Used Cyberlink PowerDirector 16 for editing.

Very good Menno. that must have been a tricky capture.

Dave

Not tricky really. More a "lazy" one: just entered the data of the comet into to hand controller of the Ioptron mount and that was it
Was a bit tricky though to get the right settings for SharpCap.