45p 20170319 cschur

 Now a very low surface brightness object in Leo, this very diffuse object is situated here in a horde of faint galaxies to magnitude 19. This was a very long set of exposures, totalling 2 hours of integration time. Luminance data was 90 minutes, and the RGB data on what is at best a colorless comet with the faintest of a teal hue was 30 minutes binned 2x2.
Lens:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph with Baader MPCC coma corrector
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200 
Camera: SBIG ST10XME
Exposure:  120m
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  2/10, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  50F
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL, Photoshop CS2