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Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2 from Border Ranges New South Wales Australia 22 Dec 2014

Comet Lovejoy looking spectacular for Xmas now with a nice bright tail.

 

I was surprised to see the small horizontal fuzzy blur under the comet a distant Dwarf Galaxy NGC2188 32.5 Million Light Years away and very dim at Magnitude 12. Making it the dimmest most distant object I have ever photographed!

 

Olympus OMD-EM1 Camera with Zuiko Digital 150mm 2.0 Telephoto Lens tracked on Ioptron Skytracker. 10X1 minute exposures @ iso 1600 stacked in Deepskystacker

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Uploaded on December 23, 2014