Comet 46P/Wirtanen
in the evening sky
November 29, 2018

 
 This
            comet is coming in for December, and is currently around 5.5
            magnitude in the southern constellation of Fornax. I should be
            able to see this one now with the 10 inch at ground level since
            it is high enough to clear the trees in the south now. Here,
            we set up on the upper story balcony on the back of our house
            with a portable mount and I used the Meade 622 for imaging. 60
            one minute frames were taken, and 55 combined here for this color
            image with a Hutech-Canon Xti.
 

            
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Field here
            is about 3 x2 degrees


Lens:  Meade 622 Cometracker Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Meade LDX5 GEM
Camera: Canon XTi
Exposure:  55m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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