Comet Leonard C/2021A1 finally!

For days I have been frustrated by early evening clouds after sunset that were right were the comet was. But finally I was able tonight (December 19, 2021) to get a decent capture of this comet before it heads out of our area of the solar system. It was below Venus and barely above the Huachuca Mountain range to my south-west. This is cropped quite a bit but one can just make out it's short fanned tail.

Scope: Daystar 80mm doublet f/5 600mm fl

Camera: Canon T3i modded

Mount: AVX

Exposure: about 15 sec at ISO 200

Some post processing with Luminar 2018

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