This
            exciting comet continues to brighten and increase in size dramatically
            from just last week. The primary C compnent is the main comet,
            and B had split off on the way in to the sun. The B fragment
            does not appear to be splitting anymore, the nucleus is one diffuse
            glow. The visual appearance of these 7th magnitude objects is
            that B is a large circular glowing patch with little tail, and
            C is much more concentrated in the core, and had a 1 degree long
            tail in the 7x50's.


            

            
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Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG 10XME NABG with Enhanced Water Cooling
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  LRGB = 15:5:5:5 (RGB Binned 2x2)
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.05: 1.11
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 5 arcsec (Maxim DL - 1 min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  35 F
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop, PixInsight
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