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Community photo entitled  by Kris Hazelbaker on 09/06/2023 at Grangeville, Idaho, USA

On 09/06/2023 04:30 am by Kris Hazelbaker| Grangeville, Idaho, USA

I have been wanting to try for this comet, so had looked for it's current location in the sky (near the head of the constellation Leo). I used Stellarium to find out when it would be rising, and how long I would have before the Sun started brightening the sky. I had about a half hour window! I didn't take the time to set up my star tracker, so had to shoot short exposures to minimize star trails. I went outside about 4 am, and the eastern horizon was very hazy, and a bright Moon didn't help. I couldn't even see magnitude 3 Algenubi, near the comet. But I aimed my camera that direction, started shooting, and ended up with this. Definitely worth the early morning!

Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 200 mm lens, tripod

This is about 3.5 minutes of exposure, taken 2 seconds at a time. I stacked those images in PixInsight, and made final tweaks in PaintShop Pro. The image is cropped to about 25% of the original.