Comet Leonard underneath Venus
Taken by Bob Beal on December 17, 2021 @ Washington, Utah, USA
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Once again the comet is much easier to see with a camera than visually, and it has a tail. Viewed it with 8x56 binoculars briefly as a faint fuzzy star in the twilight before it faded away.

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Panasonic GX8, Lumix 100-300mm lens @ 100mm, iOptron SkyTracker Pro
3 x (f/4, 5 sec, ISO 400) + 7 x (f/4, 10 sec, ISO 400) = 1m 25s
postprocessed in DSS and PSP X2
N upper right, W clockwise; FOV = 7.5° x 10°
date: Dec 17, 2021 6:40pm MST = Dec 18, 2021 1:40 UT (~ 1h 20m after sunset)

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