Here's a picture of comet Ikeya-Zhang. I took this in Wimberly, TX on March 11, 2002. I reprocessed the original shot to get a higher resolution image.
This comet was recently discovered by two amateur astronomers. It comes around earth every 341 years, so it was last seen in 1661. Under excellent conditions it is a naked eye object. More info is at: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/03/13/comet.watch/
Here's the older, lower resolution version. It's quite a challenge in Photoshop for a variety of reasons
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Technical Details: Nikon F2 camera, Nikon 300 f2.8 lens wide open, ~4 minute exposure unguided, Losmandy G-11 mount, Kodak LE 400 film, Nikon Coolscan IV ED film scanner, quick and dirty processing in Photoshop.
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