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On the evening of Jan 15th Comet Pons-Brooks passed 1/2° S of the sparse but distinctive open cluster M29 headed E. Its brightness was listed at mag 9.3. The blue sky is due to an almost 1Q Moon.
The blue sky really emphasizes reddish dots in the photo. The camera has a Sony sensor and it was near freezing out, both of which usually mean very low noise even on a regular camera. Sampling against Sky Safari 6 with its Gaia star catalog down to around mag 17, all the red dots are indeed true stars, but none had color data listed for such faint stars.
Photo data:
Panasonic G9, Askar FRA 600, iOptron GEM45G
... 34 x (f/5.6, 60 sec, ISO 1600) = 34 min
... N right, W down, FOV = 1.65° x 1.25°
... date: Jan 15, 2024 7:10-8:05pm MST (= Jan 16, 2024 2:10-3:05 UT)
... stacked: DSS (comet+stars aligned); processed: PSP X2
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