This image was created by combining a total of 20 min worth of exposures while guiding on the comet and 180 sec of exposures while guiding on the star background.  The images were blended together in Photoshop using techniques described by Ron Wodaski so as to remove the trailed stars from the comet image.  The comet was higher in the sky this time so I was able to capture a little more of the coma, but the dim areas were still lost in haze and Washington DC light pollution.       Click here to go back.