C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS) 2020-May-08 Chris Schur

This is our first shot of this new comet, now riding high over the pole early in the evening. When Atlas Y4 disappeared behind the trees in the west, we were glad to see another comet we could image nightly and follow its progress in a better part of the sky.

Field here is about 1 degree.

Lens: 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure: 18m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature: 50F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

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