Although the weather was relatively good, there were some clouds above the western horizon. Unfortunately they were all the time just on the comet position. Therefore it was not possible to take one single image of the whole comet. The head of the comet disappeared beyond the clouds at 21:54. The sky was not dark enough at that time to capture the more distant parts of comet's dust tail. Therefore I used totally 12 images taken in time interval 21:53 - 22:16 of local time to reconstruct the whole comet. It was rather complicated work because of the different contrast and color balance caused by gradual dawn. The part of the image marked by the frame consists of totally 7 images - one single image of the head (1.6 s, ISO 500, 5.6/183 mm, 21:53) and 6 images of the nearest part of the tail (5-10 s, ISO 500, 5.6/183mm, 22:01 - 22:04). The majority of the image consists of 5 images (10 s, ISO 3200, 6.3/70mm, 22:14 - 22:16) taken at the time when the comet head was under the visible horizon.

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