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 The
            comet is now an easy naked eye object in Lepus, about 5th magnitude
            and brightening. I could see at least a degree of dust tail naked
            eye, and in the 11x80 binoculars the comet was lime green in
            color. Seen in this image is the dust tail pointing up which
            is rotating around for a position of 180 degrees from the blue
            ion tail on Christmas Day. The Blue Ion tail points to the left
            and goes off the frame. An unidentified blue object is to the
            lower right of the comets head.
Instrument:  8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt Camera
Platform:  Homemade GEM
Film:  Kodak Supra 400
CCD Autoguider: ST4
Exposure:  2x8mins
Filters:  NONE
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  6800 ft.
Sky:  Seeing 10/10, Transparency 10/10
Outside Temperature:  -10 C
Processing: Photoshop, PixInsight
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