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Another Comet and Few More Photos

Last night I finally got the 500 f4 pointed to Comet 12P/Pons Brooks. This is the comet that the media has somehow come up with the name of Devil Comet, due to its odd shape earlier this year. All the hype aside, it is a bright comet right now and can be seen with binoculars low in the west after sunset. 12P/Pons Brooks is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. I thought I was going to have a hard time with it since the moon was quite bright, but it turned out to be quite easy to process.

I think if the moon hadn’t been so bright I could have got more of the tail, but I’m pretty happy with this. This is the result of 27 twenty-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker comet mode.
Emory’s Rock Daisy is quite common now, rocky slopes are loaded with it.
I haven’t seen much Owl Clover this spring. It is one of my favorite desert flowers, and had to photograph this one.
My first Desert Spiny Lizard of the spring, out getting warmed up in the morning sun.