Comet Catalina US10
in the morning sky
December 2, 2015

 
 This
            shot was taken this morning around 5:30am, and the comet was
            about 8 degrees above the distant mountain ranges. Very faint
            visually being so low in the morning twilight, around mag 6 or
            so. A positive and negative shown here, the neg image shows the
            complex but faint gas tail present at this time. A 50% moon was
            also blowing away the sky as well, making this a nice shot for
            showing the promise this comet has when dark skies return in
            a week.


Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s f/6 - AKA "Zeiss APO" - with Televue .8x FR/CC
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: Hutech Canon XTi at ISO 800
Exposure:  10m RGB (30s x 20)
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  32F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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