252P/LINEAR 2016-May-29 Chris Schur

Lens: 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure: 15m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 5/10, Transparency 5/10
Outside Temperature: 60F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

This comet is now heading far out into the outer solar system. Currently at 10th magnitude it is a phantom of its former self! This image was taken with the 10 inch f/3.9 for 15 minutes and the comet is the dim glow to the upper left in a rich Ophiuchus star field near the Milky Way.