C/2020 F8 (SWAN) 2020-May-13 Chris Schur

This 4th magnitude comet is now emerging into the northern hemispheres skies this week. A spectacular object for southern hemisphere imagers up to this point, we can now see it emerging in the morning twilight as a very low contrast and difficult object in any instrument. It was not seen in the finder but visually was a challenging glow next to the orange star seen here.

Lens: Meade 622 Cometracker Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform: Meade LDX5
Camera: Canon XTI
Exposure: 12 x 30s = 6m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 5/10, Transparency 7/10
Outside Temperature: 40F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2