Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Comet C/2017 PanSTARRS now swings by M106, Dan Bartlett
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Comet C/2017 PanSTARRS now swings by M106

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This was a difficult one folks! Had to shoot between the high clouds. Luckily I was running two scopes and managed to use 32 x 180s of the RASA8 +ZWO294mcP AND 26 x 180s using a RASA11 +ZWO071mcP. Many of those frames would have been tossed on a typical Eastern Sierra Mountain night. Alignment of the light frames for the two cameras went smoothly using the best larger field frame as reference. Had to go for it since these are once in a lifetime events.

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Comet C/2017 PanSTARRS now swings by M106, Dan Bartlett