Clear and moonless while shooting early morning on January 28, I thought conditions were as close to perfection as one could expect in SW Ohio. While determining the direction the comet nucleus was traveling (relative to the sensor) and framing to adjust the camera rotation, I was really not able to see the ion tale, even with very high iso test shots. Ideally, the ion tale would have been oriented along the long axis of the sensor, but it ended up being at 45 degrees. Hopefully I'll get one more chance to obtain more data. In processing, I also compared using the new CometIntegration tool start to finish compared to a hybrid of using Batch StarXTerminator to obtain starless images of comet-aligned subs, and the hybrid using SXT was a lot better at least in my hands. With SPCC, I used GV2 star as the white reference following
@Adam Block's processing suggestion. I didn't touch the saturation for the comet, so a little surprised at the amount of yellow in the dust tail.
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