73P Schwassman-Wachmann-3 Fragment R
I continued searching for more fragments from comet 73P Schwassman-Wachmann 3. Here is an image of fragment R from last evening just before midnight. Temperature was 57°F, clear, no wind, transparency very good, and turbulence 6/10. Equipment used was Celestron Nexstar11 mounted on APT wedge, Meade F3.3 focal reducer, and Astrovid Stellcam2 video camera. Stellacam2 set at gain 9/14, integrate 128 (~4 sec), and medium gamma. Twenty minutes of video was dark subtracted and flat field corrected with ImagePlus. Images aligned and stacked in 5 minute segments with Registax3. Photoshop Elements was used to crop, enhance, and create the animated gif.
