Comet Pons/Brooks
in the evening sky
4/2/24

 
 Now
            an easy naked eye sight from a dark sky location, this comet
            is less than 15 degrees up at dark and has a very limited amount
            of time in which we can get clear images. For this set, I traveled
            to a site on a back road north of Payson about 20 miles where
            a very low distant horizon allowed a maximum amount of time on
            the comet. I was able to get in 35 minutes but the last 10 were
            very dim in the horizon extinction band and was rejected. 8"
            f/2 RASA, ASI071mc CMOS.

            
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Lens:  8 f/2 RASA Schmidt
Platform:  Ioptron GEM45
Exposure:  25 mins
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  45F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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