Comet 64P/ Swift-Gehrels
in the Evening sky
November 9, 2018

 
 This
            beautifully colored comet lies in Andromeda, near M31. Now at
            10th magnitude and slowly fading, this slow moving object makes
            for a perfect evening target near the zenith - Away from most
            of the layered smoke from forest fires in California that are
            plaguing our skies right now.
 

            
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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:  60m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 4/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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