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This
            fading comet is now visible briefly above the trees in the west
            from our observatory in Payson. In the 15 minutes or so before
            it goes into the pine trees, I obtained this image revealing
            that the comet still has a substantial green color in the head,
            and a dusty gas tail as well. The comets magnitude was near 7.5,
            and was faintly visible in the 80mm binoculars as a round glow.
Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: 
Exposure:  RGB = 6:6:6 
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 8 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  35 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Gralaks Sigma, Photoshop, PixInsight, Starizona Debloomer.
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