Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 9 January 2015

164 subframes 45 sec each, captured between 20:00 and 23 h UT in Tenerife, 1200 m alt. FOV: ca 2° x 1.5°, You can see metamorphosis in the DE (disconnection event) part of the tail and also the newly formed, very faint second tail, perpendicular to the up to now spectacular tail . Sony A7s (modded, uncooled) at Hyperstar/Celestron 14“, EQ8 mount, ISO 1600, calibrated (flat, superbias, dark), Dynamic and automatic background extraction, MaskedStretch, LocalHistogramEqualization, Crop, CurvesTransformation, M