Comet Lovejoy (Recap: 5-9 Feb 15)
Taken by Jan Curtis on February 9, 2015 @
Near Santa Fe, New Mexico
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This composite shows Lovejoy on 5 consective nights with near perfect skies. Each night the comet became more visible naked eye although one had to know where to look for it. Its close transit past 2nd magnitude star Almach in Andromeda helped. In binoculars, Lovejoy's tail was visible but considerably shorter than these 20 minute daily exposures reveal. The bottom of this image shows that my final day's capture was not overlapping with previous nights; thus the reason for the darker band.
I provided a 2nd image to show more contrast.
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