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Object/Date:
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova @ February 19,2017

Description:
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova sails on the dark sky again, away from the Moon, rides the constellation Canes Venatici, at its right side the Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631) seems ascend in the field. A little more up float the Hockey Stick Galaxy (NGC 4656), an exotic irregular galaxy. The comet still shows a big coma with intense green color, at same time that deploys a dust tail toward west (downwards).

Tech data:
Takahashi FSQ-106ED 530mm f/5 & SBIG STL-11000M (L:3×120s Bin1+ RGB:1x60s Bin2) from Mayhill, New Mexico