156P/Russell-LINEAR & M33 2021-Jan-07/08/09/10 Dan Bartlett

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron RASA 11" Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph 11"
Mounts: 10micron GM1000HPS
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. PinInsight 1.8 · Sequence Generator SGPro

Four in a row (nights with comets).

On the nights of January 7,8, 9 and 10, 2021 Comet 156/P Russell-LINEAR was in the same field (Celestron RASA11 & ZWO asi 294 mcP) as M33.

Although I had to play with the framing a bit (see first night's processed image here https://astrob.in/vm5kfm/0/ ), I still managed to squeeze the objects into the same field. I processed all four night's captures separately and used the mosaic process under StarAlignment in PixInsight to make this composite. The full resolution image for the 4th night https://astrob.in/1bvta1/0/ shows a slight amount of activity around the nucleus and coma if you zero in on Comet Russell-LINEAR.

All four nights had decent transparency (7700 ft at June Lake California), but the seeing on January 8 (my birthday) was subpar.

I've put together a 40 second animation of all four nights of the captures, for anyone's viewing pleasure, found here on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/499823663

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