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 Now visible
            to the naked eye and rising higher every evening, Comet Swan
            was a splendid target for imaging from our vantage point on the
            top of the Colorado Plateau. The tail was faintly visible in
            the 11x80 binoculars, and seen here shows a long bluish ion tail
            and a short fan like dust tail right near the greenish coma.
            This image was tracked on the nucleus, and left short star trails,
            which is the movement the comet would have blurred if I had tracked
            on the stars. The comet is moving fast, and even in 40 minutes,
            the comet moved over 10 arcminutes. Eight exposures of 5 mins
            each were averaged for this image to retain the core detail.
Instrument:  Stellarvue SV80S Refractor 
w/.8x TR2008 Field Flattener, EFR = 80mm f/4.74 @ 379mm FL
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Camera:  Canon 10D @ ISO800
Exposure:  40m (8 x 5mins)
Filters:  Standard IR Block
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  9/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  21F
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS2, Raw Shooter Premium
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