Comet C/2011 KP36 Spacewatch
in the Evening sky
October 20, 2016  8 - 9pm

 

            
 This 14th
            magnitude object is low in Cetus in the early evening sky, and
            is currently one of the brightest decent comets to image this
            month. Ive made the image lighter to show the unsuual tail and
            coma appearance. There appears to be an elongated coma going
            east/west and a short tail like structure pointing right in this
            image.

            
There are hordes
            of faint galaxies in this image! The second panel shows an over
            lay of Cartes du Ciel mapping program for this field, nearly
            all galaxies here are fainter than 15th magnitude, with the faintest
            here plotted such as PGC1063550 to the comets lower left is 18.6th
            magnitude. But many more fainter groups of galaxies can be seen
            in the large image, fainter than 19th magnitude.

            
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Lens:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
Exposure:  1h 15m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  52F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2
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