Emerald Comet Visits Colorful Auriga (Terry Hancock)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · NGC 1893 · The star 14Aur · The star 16Aur · The star 19Aur · The star φAur

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Emerald Comet Visits Colorful Auriga

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Emerald Comet Visits Colorful Auriga

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas in emerald green color passes by the main colorful nebula of the Constellation Auriga in this image captured and processed from Grand Mesa Observatory on 12/8/2020 by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson. This image was captured using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing.

The main nebulae in this image are the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) the comma shaped red and white/purple nebula to the top and right along with the Tadpole Nebula (NGC 1893) located to the center left. Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas is seen almost ‘touching’ the Tadpole Nebula in this image. Distance-wise Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas was a mere 3.74 light-minutes from Earth when this image was captured while the Flaming Star Nebula is about 1,400 light-years distant and further still is the Tadpole Nebula which is roughly 12,400 light-years away.

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Total Integration time 3.3 hours

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: December 9th, 2020

Color RGGB 200 min, 100 x 120 sec

Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS

Gain 0, Offset 76

Read Mode: High Gain Mode

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

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Post Processed in Photoshop

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