Comet Linear 252P
Taken by Chris Schur on April 2, 2016 @
Payson, Az
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Camera Used: SBIG ST-10 Dual CCD Camera Unavailable
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Date Taken: 2016:04:02 09:11:42
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This comet passed very close to the Earth a week ago, and now is in a moon free sky in Serpens. I was just able to glimpse this object naked eye, putting its magnitude near 6 or so. The very faint fan tail points to the left here, but is very tenuous. I used the six inch Astrograph because this comet is so huge, the field of the 10" would have been too close! A very rich star field and deep cyan color highlights this image. An interesting feature of this comet is that the blue image was brighter than the green one.
39 mins exposure, 6" f/3.6 Cometracker Schmidt Newt.
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