Comet:  C/24p Schaumasse
in the Morning Sky in Bootes
1/27/26

 

            
Currently the brightest
            comet in the sky, 24P has a startling blue-green coma and a yellowish
            dust tail which is quite faint extending off to the right here
            (west). The long exposure used here was to primarily capture
            the very faint tail well.

            
-Date/Time Local: 1/27/26
              3:20 am MST

            -Date/Time UT:  1/27/26   10:20 UT

            -FOV:  94' x 75'

            -Orientation: N up

            -Seeing: 2

            -Transparency: 6

            -Orig. Scale: 1.2 arcsec/Pixel

            -Instrument:  10" f/3.8 Newt

            -Exposure:  LRGB = 2h 30m total

            -Camera:  Atik 16200

            -Location:  Payson,AZ

            
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Scope:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph Newtonian + Baader MPCC 2 coma corrector
Camera: Atik 16200 CCD
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
Exposure:  2h 30 mins LRGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  PI, Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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