Comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, M66 and M65
Taken by Mike Olason on May 5, 2018 @
Denver, Colorado
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In this image Comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh shares the same star field as background Spiral Galaxies M66 and M65. The comet is magnitude 16.5 and the galaxies are both about magnitude 10. The negative insert attempts to show the comet a little better. The insert shows the comet has a very faint tail pointing to the WNW (lower right) from the coma.
The comet is moving only 6 arc seconds (0.0016 degrees) per hour across Earth's night sky which allowed averaging 3 ten minute images without showing a streaked comet or streaked stars.
Naturally the trick is trying to show a faint comet and still show some nice features of the bright spiral galaxies in the same image, something that Roman Kulesza did very nicely with his GIF images of 74P passing in front of M66 this past week.
As usual select the larger image to get the best resolution.
I have started commenting on some of the nice images on this site. I would like to comment on all of them but that would take to much time. I just want to say that I think that all the images on this site are very nice and they all have a great story to tell. Thank all of you for sharing your images with everyone.
Mike Olason
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