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In the wee hours of the morning of February 7, 2017, I caught an image of tailless Comet 45/P with my 100mm f/3.8 Vixen refractor as it coursed through the rich starclouds of Ophiuchus Milky Way under crystal clear skies! The image consists of four 3-minute LRGB exposures with SBIG 11K CCD Camera captured remotely. A few hours later, a storm front moved in with torrential rains! The comet-in-Milky Way image became the lead story in Spaceweather.com for February 8, 2017 (link below).
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=132809 – in Spaceweather.com
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=02&year=2017– in Spaceweather.com – lead story