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 Now here is another
            dim evening comet, riding high in Triangulum. This 14th magnitude
            object sports a small tail, seen here pointing westward (left
            here) from a dim round yellowish coma. The field here is about
            3/4 degree wide and shows some very interesting galaxies. To
            the left are three objects. The upper pair of galaxies seen better
            in the magnified inset are PGC6818 and PGC6819. Both are very
            nearly the same brightness and size and in fact these 18th magnitude
            objects form a pair in space and have been well studied. They
            belong to the rare class C type, for circular. 

            
Just below it is the
            brighter PGC6815, which is also a type C galaxy and is 17.8 magnitude.
            All three are quite yellow in color from intergalactic extinction.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  Canon 10D @ ISO400
Exposure:  3 x 5m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  50F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS, Maxim DL, PixInsight, Canon Raw
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