220p 20260920 cschur

-Comet:  220P McNaught
-Date/Time Local: 9/20/26   0:01 AM MST
-Date/Time UT:  8/25/26  7:01 UT
-FOV:  125' x 100'
-Orientation: N up
-Seeing: 6
-Transparency: 8
-Orig. Scale: 1.6 arcsec/Pixel
-Instrument:  10" f/2.9 Newt
-Exposure: 2h  total LRGB
-Camera:  Atik 16200
-Location:  Payson,AZ

Notes:

Very low surface brightness indeed, only a very small part of the tail was seen in the 5 min subs.
Extensive IFN all over this field makes for challenging processing.
Used blurred stars only image to subtract out residuals in comet only image left over from StarXterminator.

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