Comet 71P / Clark
in the Evening sky
June 15, 2017

 
 This
            10.4 magnitude object in Scorpius has a shart fan tail and a
            bit of teal coloration. Seeing very bad, and a great deal of
            fire smoke blotting out the southern sky.


            
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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: LRGB = 5:5:5:5
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature: 60F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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