C/2021 A1 (Leonard) 2021-Dec-05 Chris Schur

Comet Leonard A1 - Close up with the 10 inch
in the Morning sky
12/4/21

http://www.schursastrophotography.com/newcomets/LeonardA1-120421.html

This comet is getting much too large now for the 10 inch, with its 1 meter of focal length! A beautiful teal colored coma and a tawny tail charecterizes this celestial splendor, now approching 7th magnitude. Getting low in the morning sky, but still over the observatory wall at 4:30 am.


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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: 60 m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 40F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2