45p 20220518 0324 molason

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova from the evening of 2022 May 18 UT. The comet was magnitude 7.6 with a coma 2' wide and a tail 0.5 degrees long at a position angle of 87 degrees from the coma. The comet was located 13' at position angle 261 degrees from the latest MPC ephemeris update. The gif animation shows 8 minutes in the comet's life as it is getting ready to set behind my neighbor's roof at an altitude of 6 degrees. The gif is composed of 8 images each 15 seconds long taken with no filter from 0323-0331UT as the sky was starting to get dark and the light pollution brighter.