Date/Time: August 26, 2011 11:24PM PDT

Location: Island Star Party, Bright Angel Park, Duncan, BC, Canada

This comet was well-placed in the evening sky, and this evening it was adjacent to M71, a small star cluster. The comet's dust tail is clearly visible, however the ion tail isn't apparent in this image.

Equipment: Hutech-modified Canon T2i dSLR utilizing an IDAS UIBAR-III filter mounted prime focus on a Borg 101ED f/4 Astrograph mounted on an unguided HEQ5.

Exposure: 26 x 1 minute at ISO 1600

Conditions: Temperature 16°C, Humidity 100% (dew). LVM 5.5, Transparency 4/5, Steadiness 5/5, clear skies

Processing:

PixInsight Core 1.8.8-8 Ripley (x64) - WeightBatchPreprocessing (Light Frames only, no calibration frames used), save as 48 bit TIF.

ACDSee Photo Studio 7: reduce colour depth to 24 bit, crop, reduce brightness, save as jpg