Comet Catalina US10
in the morning sky
January 1, 2016

 
 This
            morning a special event for this comet - nearly on top of Arcturus,
            an orange brilliant naked eye star. While the half moon nearby
            created some unwanted loss of contrast, the comets twin tails
            were evident in this long exposure image lasting nearly an hour.
 

            


            
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Field here
            is about 3 x2 degrees



            


            
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Negative
            image to show tail details


Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s f/6 - AKA "Zeiss APO" - with Televue .8x FR/CC
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: Hutech Canon Xti
Exposure:  54m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  20F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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