Comet C/2016 Panstarrs R2
in the Evening sky
Feb 3, 2018

 
 We
            never know what this comet is going to do from week to week.
            After a long wait for full moon, this was the first evening with
            a dark sky to shoot the comet again. The tail has faded to a
            dim fan shape, with little details. However a small cloud appears
            to be below the comet, possibly a puff of gas from an earlier
            outburst or a background nebula. Very dim indeed, we can still
            see the coma as teal colored.
 

            


            
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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: 51 x3m RGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 3/10
Outside Temperature:  40F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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