This is currently the brightest comet in the entire sky, beaming softly at 10th magnitude and just visible in my 8x50 finder. It sports a fine dust tail, tawny in color here after a nice teal colored coma which has a bit of a corkscrew shape. Lens: 12.5" f/5 Home bult Newtonian Platform: Astrophysics AP1200 Exposure: 29m LRGB Location: Payson, Arizona Elevation: 5150 ft. Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10 Outside Temperature: 40F Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2 |
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