Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's Galaxy  ·  Cigar Galaxy  ·  M 81  ·  M 82  ·  NGC 2961  ·  NGC 3031  ·  NGC 3034  ·  NGC 3077
C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS Visits M81 and M82, Andrew Barton
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C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS Visits M81 and M82

C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS Visits M81 and M82, Andrew Barton
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C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS Visits M81 and M82

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On the evening of May 21 - 23 2020, Comet C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS was in the same visual field as M81 and M82. I chose the alignment on May 22 for my image. The main challenge for this images was to go deep enough on M81 and M82 to show some galaxy details without overly smearing all details of the comet. To simplify one aspect of this image I stuck with a OSC CCD camera. Still processing was challenging. For example, it's really hard to get galaxy rejection stacking on the comet. I do like the contrast of the comet's color with that of M81 and M82.

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C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS Visits M81 and M82, Andrew Barton