Phillip Creed and Phil Hoyle single frame video image of comet Ikeya-Zhang

This image was acquired by Phill Creed on the evening of 3/22/02 (EST).
Using a Sony digital camcorder without additional optical aide.
Camera was in night vision mode with 1/4 second exposure setting.

A method to download the video into the PC was used that increases the video signal.
It also greatly increases the noise.
After 100 frames, the noise is greatly reduced as seen in the next image.
Image was processed by Phil Hoyle (completed on 3/29).