Comet Panstarrs T2
in the Evening sky
June 6, 2020

 

            
 When there
            are no hours of darkness due to a huge bright nearly full moon
            looming in the east, it is time to do camera testing and validate
            equipment. Such was the case last night, I tried out our new
            autoguiding CMOS camera the ZWO ASI mini on few deep space objects.
            

            
Comet Panstarrs
            T2 was the first target, and surprisingly the head is contorted
            and twisting with an apparent offset nuclear condensation as
            seen here. This was a 20 stack of 30s exposures. 

            
One final test
            was the nearby galaxy M51, this is a 3 minute integration set,
            which shows a surprising amount of detail for such a short exposure.
            

 

            
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            here for a larger 1900 sized image


            
Field here
            is about 1/3 degree

 

            
 Click
            here for a larger 1900 sized image


            
Field here
            is about 1/3 degree


Lens:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph 
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: ZWO ASI mini
Exposure:  10m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  60F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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