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C/2009 R1 (McNaught)

Comet C/2009 R1 (McNaught) is currently travelling through Perseus, low down in the pre-dawn sky. I managed to get a single 60 second exposure from New Mexico on GRAS-14, a Takashashi FSQ 106ED with an SBIG STL-11000M-ABG camera. The comet is currently 177 million kilometres from Earth and makes it’s closest approach on 15th June at 170 million kilometres.

I’ve had to remove a substantial background gradient on this image as this was just before dawn and it’s binned 3×3 to reduce the image size.

 

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