Comet C/2017 K2 (Panstarrs) (James R Potts)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: LBN 35 · LDN 238

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This is my second attempt at this comet, my first attempt did not turn out well. I am not supper excited about this image, but it is a lot better than my first one. It has been really windy lately, so I took about 15 minutes of really short exposures (10 seconds). Even with the short exposures I had to delete several frames as my big ole 190 Mak/Newt catches a lot of wind.

It is close to the Milky Way core and will pass some bigger Nebulas. In reading about this comet, it is considered bigger than most comets with a diameter of 8 to 10 miles and a chroma of over 80,000 miles with a tail close to 500,000 miles This image did capture some nebulosity from LBN 35, the Zeta Ophuichi nebula. I originally didn't think this was cataloged, but good on PS identified this nebula. Anyway I hope a few of you like this image.

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RA (center)	16h34m43s.286
RA (top/left)	16h32m33s.209
RA (top/right)	16h37m30s.845
RA (bottom/right)	16h36m52s.663
RA (bottom/left)	16h31m55s.871

Dec (center)	-09°04′29″.61
Dec (top/left)	-09°37′27″.71
Dec (top/right)	-09°24′31″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	-08°31′30″.75
Dec (bottom/left)	-08°44′24″.60

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