Comet C/2016 Panstarrs R2
in the Evening sky
January 5th, 2018

 
 This
            amazing comet is classified as an extremely rare Carbon Monoxide
            Comet, and displays a very strong blue coloration and a wild
            thrashing tail. Tonight it was near 10.5th magnitude and right
            next to the blazing 3.6 magnitude star Gamma Tauri, which marks
            the apex of the V shaped asterism of the Hayades star cluster.
            Needless to say, that star which is the beacon in the image below
            made a mess of the field in a NABG CCD camera!
 

            


            
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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  BRGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 3/10
Outside Temperature:  30F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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