(6478) Gault 2019-Jan-12 Chris Schur

This 18.8 magnitude asteroid in Crater is currently demonstrating a dust appendage. The origin of the sudden dust tail appearance is currently being debated, and future studies of this very rare type of object will no doubt answer this question. Here is a short set of exposures with the 10 inch Orion Astrograph and ST10xme CCD for 40 minutes total time.

Lens: 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure: 39m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 4/10
Outside Temperature: 25F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2