Comet C/2020 F8 Swan
in the morning sky
May 13, 2020

 
 This
            4th magnitude comet is now emerging into the northern hemispheres
            skies this week. A spectacular object for southern hemispere
            imagers up to this point, we can now see it emerging in the morning
            twilight as a very low contrast and difficult object in any instrument.
            It was not seen in the finder but visually was a challenging
            glow next to the orange star seen here.
 

            


            
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Field here
            is about 3 x2 degrees


Lens:  Meade 622 Cometracker Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Meade LDX5
Camera: Canon XTI
Exposure:  12 x 30s = 6m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  5/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature:  40F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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