C/2020 V2 (ZTF) 2023-Feb-19 Dan Bartlett

Imaged 10th magnitude C/2020 V2 (ZTF) with two RASA11's one using a mono asi6200mmP (20x180s)and the other using the OSC asi6200mcP(21x180s)cameras on February 19th 2023. Made a super luminance channel using all data and from the OSC data produced the RGB channel effectively doubling my exposure time in this L-RGB image. The secondary tail, is as yet to be confirmed by other imagers, however appears prominent in this image and my Feb 12th image seen here https://astrob.in/k1q1ln/C/.

​​​​​​​I'll need more practice before I'm happy with this procedure. Stars are overly bright and the background has a strange hue to the IFN visible.

Observational details:
Backyard setup
scope: 2 x C11 RASA D = 279mm; fl =618mm; F# 2.2
cameras: asi 6200mcP and asi 6200mmP
exposure: 21 x180 sec and 20 x 180sec
Seeing: 4/5
Transparency: 9/10
Observer: DEBartlett
Location: June Lake, California, USA

Image InFo (Both):
WCS transformation ....... Linear
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [1268.998081 894.010639] px -> [RA: 1 42 11.600 Dec: +46 07 25.04]
Resolution ............... 2.504 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -2.563 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2023-02-20 03:37:10 UTC
Observation end time ..... 2023-02-20 03:40:10 UTC
Geodetic coordinates ..... 119 04 46 W 37 46 51 N 2360 m
Focal distance ........... 619.40 mm
Pixel size ............... 7.52 um
Field of view ............ 1d 45' 55.7" x 1d 14' 37.5"
Image center ............. RA: 1 42 11.599 Dec: +46 07 25.06
Image bounds:
top-left .............. RA: 1 47 10.892 Dec: +46 46 39.48
top-right ............. RA: 1 36 53.191 Dec: +46 41 50.41
bottom-left ........... RA: 1 47 23.359 Dec: +45 32 05.61
bottom-right .......... RA: 1 37 19.400 Dec: +45 27 22.98

Full Resolution can be found here https://astrob.in/fixhil/B/

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