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The comets dust tail is now very dominant in this image, seen here as a broad dust fan pointing downwards with a sharp left edge. The gas tail is the blue streamer pointing to the right. 
Instrument:  10" f/3.6 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: Hutech Canon Xti
Exposure:  26 x 2m = 46m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  4/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  20F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

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