Comet C/2015 Panstarrs R2
in the Evening sky in Taurus
March 4, 2018

 

            
 This comet
            continues to be an excellent target amonst the Taurus Milky Way
            fields rich in stars. Tonight, we only had an hour to shoot the
            comet after the end of twilight because the comet moved into
            the nearby trees. The brightest star here is 7th magnitude and
            faintest galaxies are 19th. Ive marked one asteroid in the labeled
            shot below too.

            
The tail continues
            to be a nice blue coloration, and is currently a short fan with
            some extensions on the sides. On the right side of the field
            especially, you can see a large arc of reflection nebulosity
            that surrounds the area near the Pleiades star cluster.



            
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Field here
            is about 1 degree



            
Negative
            image with a few features labeled


            
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            here for a larger 1290 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:  55m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  20F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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