Comet Tempel 1 / 9P
in the Evening sky
April 2, 2016

 
 This
            14th magnitude comet currently in Coma Bernices is in a field
            of hordes of galaxies! The short greenish tail can be see here
            pointing downward in this crop of the small part of the full
            image surrounding the comet. To the lower right is a faint galaxy
            cluster. Check out the 1600 sized image and see tons of faint
            galaxies!
 

            
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            here for a larger image:


            
1290
            x 960


            
1600
            x 1200


            
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:  30F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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