Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022, Dale Hollenbaugh
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022
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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022, Dale Hollenbaugh
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022
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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 Cluster - 07/15/2022

C11HD Hyperstar v4
540mm F/1.9

First light with new ZWO ASI585MC camera, as my ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera is being replaced.

Calibration, stacking, registration, normalization, integration, background extraction and color calibration done in Astro Pixel Processor.

First, stacked on stars and processed to save star field. Removed stars in PixInsight with StarNet2 and kept starfield and processed stars.

Second, stacked on comet nucleus for the comet, but got star trails.  Re-integrate using weighted median absolute deviation local normalization rejection to reduce the star/trails.

Take comet stack into Photoshop and clear out star trails leaving only the comet field.

Bring comet stack back into PixInsight and use PixelMath to re-integrate starfield.

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) Comet with M10 - 07/15/2022, Dale Hollenbaugh