Just when the world has officially become comet fatigued, I finally get around to processing this one from Stinson Beach on 10/19. Every attempt, I made a dumb mistake, preventing me from getting a better quality image. In this case, I switched to the crop sensor body and the 450mm lens and decided to use the built-in Astrotracer, which moves the camera sensor in sync with Earth's rotation, fair enough. Well, the beautiful spot in the sand I selected during sunset, closed 1 hr after sunset and the ranger kicked me out just as i was focused and ready to begin tracking. I had to pack the gear and drive around looking for a second site which was not easy, eventually heading up Hwy 1 above the town. The only problem here was my GPS was blocked by the steep bluff behind me, preventing me from acquiring a GPS lock, so I wasted time trying to figure out why the stars were streaking. Finally, I gave up, shut off the tracker and just started shooting high ISO 1 sec shots. But the coastal fog laid in pretty soon and that was that.
This was stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and best I'm gonna get this time around. Of course the comet will retuen in like 81,000 years, so we good.