Comet Lemmon C/2023 H2
in the Evening sky
November 11, 2023

 

            
 This 7th magnitude
            comet is closest to the Earth right now and was speeding rapidly
            across the rich starfields of Aquilla at over a degree per day.
            Very short sub exposures were in order here, about 1 min each,
            and were stacked onto the first image in the set.

            
While the head is bright,
            it is very diffuse and hard to see visually. Could barely make
            it out in the 2.1x40 binoculars. The tail is a ray type and is
            extremely faint. The field here is about 4 degrees wide, and
            shows some of the dark dust clouds here in this region.

            
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Lens:  Stellarvue SV80s f/6 - AKA "Zeiss APO" - with Televue .8x FR/CC
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: ASI071MC Pro
Exposure:  60m RGB
Location:  Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation:  7000 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  8/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  45F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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