Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cancer (Cnc)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko, Marc Dickinson
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67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko

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67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko

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With all the images of comet Leonard I wanted one.  Unfortunately, Leonard was too low in the east for my backyard--tree limbs in the way.   But I still wanted to image a comet, so I decided on 67P.  It's my first comet image and not very impressive. Next time I'll shorten my exposures and try RGB-RGB-RGB-RGB-RGB instead of RRRRR-GGGGG-BBBBB.  I did the star-field two nights later and discovered the comet tail was still in the subs so still had to use Starnet, which I was trying to avoid.   But now that I have some experience, perhaps I'll get Leonard when it's in the west and do a little better.

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67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko, Marc Dickinson