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Eliot Herman
Tucson AZ
12/19/2021
06:30 pm

Equipment Details:

Vixen VSD asrograph and Nikon Z7II mounted on a Vixen SXP mount

Post-processing Details:

35 x 4 sec stacked with AstroPixelProcessor and the stack processed with Photoshop.

Image Details:

Comet Leonard is actively changing every day. As the comet appeared in the dusk sky on December 16 it manifested an outburst to mag 3, it then faded to mag 5 by December 18th and then it brightened again to mag 3 on December 19th. The current brighter Comet Leonard is complicated by forward scattering as well as an outburst. See CometOBServation database for discussion (cobs.si/show?id=679).

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