A late post of comet NEOWISE

I've been too busy to be active here for several years, but look forward to being back now.  I'll jump in with another comet NEOWISE.  We had a decent view from our deck and good skies but decided to see what we could do from the Alvord Desert in SE Oregon. There was more smoke and dust in the air than we wanted, but it was very dark at the new moon.

Canon 1DX Mk2, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS, at f/2.8, ISO 6400, 8 sec., daylight WB. (That is a very good lens for stars but not a very useful focal length.)  Shot in landscape orientation and then the camera tilted up a little (on a gimbal head) to capture a second frame with more of the tail.  Wish I had gone further -- didn't know I would be able to bring out this much of the ion tail. 

Tonal adjustments in Lightroom; had to go to Photoshop and do the pano by hand. Cropped a little from both sides; only about the top 1/3 is from the second frame.  Color Balance to tone down a brown tint and Topaz DeNoise AI and Nik ColorEfexPro Tonal Contrast and Pro Contrast to bring out the tails.  Hue and Saturation to minimize some color mottling from the tonal stretch.