9P/Tempel 2016-Apr-02 Chris Schur

Lens: 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform: Astrophysics AP1200
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure: 60m
Location: Payson, Arizona
Elevation: 5150 ft.
Sky: Seeing 4/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature: 30F
Processing Tools: Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

This 14th magnitude comet currently in Coma Bernices is in a field of hordes of galaxies! The short greenish tail can be see here pointing downward in this crop of the small part of the full image surrounding the comet. To the lower right is a faint galaxy cluster. Check out the 1600 sized image and see tons of faint galaxies!