Comet 46P/ Wirtanen
in the Evening sky
November 9, 2018

 
 This
            incoming comet could be quite good in the next few months. On
            this night, thick layers of fire smoke from California in the
            sky made shooting anything challenging. A few background galaxies
            in this field in Fornax can be seen here.
 

            
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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  7/10, Transparency 4/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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