Comet C/2019 Atlas Y1
in the Evening sky
May 8th, 2020

 
 This
            is our first shot of this new comet, now riding high over the
            pole early in the evening. When Atlas Y4 dissapeared behind the
            trees in the west, we were glad to see another comet we could
            image nightly and follow its progress in a better part of the
            sky.


            


            
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            here for a larger 1600 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:  18m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  50F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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