South up in this image, 1 degree in width.

            
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 There are two
            faint 14th magnitude galaxies in this image, both are within
            the coma of the comet. Just below the nucleus and to the right
            is a very small galaxy - UGC2667, a 14.5 magnitude spiral that
            is only 1 arcminute in size. You'll need to look at the 1600
            image to see this one. Far better, is UGC2685 to the right of
            the coma, just above the blue ion tail. This 14.5 magnitude object
            is 2 arcminutes and has a barred spiral appearance and is very
            yellow.

            
The comet is magnitude
            4, and still very easily visible to the naked eye. The yellow/green
            dust tail extends upward and the blue gas tail is seen to the
            right of the coma.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  Canon 10D
Exposure:  4 x 5m
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  6/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  5 C
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS, PixInsight
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