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 There is still
            plenty of color in the now rapidly dimming comet, in a month
            it will be 10th magnitude. A broad fan tail points to about 9:00
            in this image, and a slightly diffuse stellar nucleus is still
            visible. In 15 minutes there was some motion in the comet, as
            evidenced by the slight trailing of the stars in the background.
            The comet was carefully aligned in each subframe to stop all
            of the comets motion in this image.

            
Two 16th magnitude galaxies
            are on the left edge, and this rather star poor field is typical
            of Ursa Major. The comet was of course not naked eye, but was
            clearly seen in the 11x80s as a faint tailless smudge.

Instrument:  6" f/3.6 Schmidt Newtonian
Platform:  Televue GEM
Camera:  Canon 10D @ ISO1600
Exposure:  15x1m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  5 C
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS, PixInsight, Maxim DL
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