Comet 64P/ Swift-Gehrels
in the Evening sky
December 29, 2018

 
 This
            9th magnitude comet is well placed in the sky, however on this
            evening the comet ran right over a bright star and complicated
            processing. The results came out fine, and this stunning comet
            has a rich teal color. This is a one hour integration in Luminance
            and 12 minutes of color data with the 10 inch f/3.9 Orion Astrograph
            and MPCC coma corrector with an ST10xme CCD.
 

            
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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:  60m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  25F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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