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This
            9 minute exposure reveals the comets highly dusty nature, a brownish
            yellow coloration and no ionized gas to be seen anywhere. Each
            subframe had to be kept under 1 minute to keep the rapidly moving
            comet from trailing in the images. Now at 8.5 magnitude and visibly
            faintly in binoculars, this incoming object has now split into
            22 fragments. This is the main body and the brightest piece by
            far.
Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: none
Exposure:  RGB = 3:3:3 (RGB Binned 2x2) 30s subframes
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 8 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 4/10
Outside Temperature:  45 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL,  Photoshop, PixInsight
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