Comet 67p Churyumov Gerasimenko
in the Morning sky
May 31, 2014

 
 Currently
            8th magnitude in Gemini, this is of the best apparitions of this
            comet we have seen in years. Notice the beautiful ray in the
            tail, and bell shaped coma. This shot is in black and white because
            the Arizona clouds took out most of the exosures I took on this
            fine chilly morning!


            
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            here for a larger 1400 sized image


            
Field here is
            about 1 degree


Lens:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure:  30m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  3/10, Transparency 2/10
Outside Temperature:  40F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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