Comet C/2025 Swan R2
in the evening sky
11/10/25

 
 Fading
            fast, the comet now sports both a dusty ray like tail (pointing
            to lower left) and an Anti-tail (pointing left). This dusty comet
            still also retains its blue/green hue in its gassy coma and is
            roughly 8th magnitude - barely visible in binoculars. This is
            an LRGB image. This was done in a very pecuilar way. The L channel
            was with the RASA 11 inch and a monochrom camera. The RGB data
            was taken with a Samyang 135mm context camera and so was really
            poorly matched to obtain color data from for the L image. But
            it worked fine!

            
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Lens:  11" f/2.2 RASA Schmidt
Platform:  Home Made GEM
Exposure:  30 mins
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  7000 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  10/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  35F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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