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 This is currently the brightest comet in the entire sky, beaming softly at 10th magnitude and just visible in my 8x50 finder. It sports a fine dust tail, tawny in color here after a nice teal colored coma which has a bit of a corkscrew shape.

Lens:  12.5" f/5 Home bult Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Exposure:  29m LRGB
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  7/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  40F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2

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