15P/Finlay 2015-Jan-24 Chris Schur

Lens: 8" f/4 Orion Astrograph Newtonian
Platform: Home made GEM
Exposure: 30mins
Location: Happy Jack, Arizona
Elevation: 7000 ft.
Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 22F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

This 9th magnitude object was faintly visible in the finder, but still almost invisible in the 8 inch with a wide field eyepiece. Surprisingly, the coma shows a nice green coloration and a beautiful fan tail. It is high up in the western sky after sunset, some 35 degrees up.

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