Comet 41P - Tuttle-Giacombini-Kresak
in the Evening sky
April 2, 2017

 
 Finally
            a clear night, it seems lately it is many weeks between shooting
            sessions on comet due to pervasive thick clouds. The moon was
            just over 1/3 full and while waiting for Comet Johnson to rise
            after moon set, I went a few hours of exposure on 41P with the
            "Cometracker" which I have converted to a fast Astrograph.
            The deep exposure was to hopefully show a hint of gas tail, however
            all that I came up with here is a narrow extension of material
            pointing downward but still within the huge spherical coma.

            
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Lens:  Meade 622 - Cometracker schmidt newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Exposure:  2h LRGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  40F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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