We've had nothing but cloudy mornings as this year's Comet PanSTARRS brightened in its dive towards the sun. Finally, on April 18, one day before the comet's closest approach to the sun, the clouds broke and I headed up to Valley View Farm to see if I could get some pictures of it. I had a hard time finding the sucker, and the sky was already getting bright by the time I started shooting pictures. Eight-second exposures! — that was as long as I could use with the approaching dawn. But I got 43 of these before I gave up, and image stacking was able to work magic to bring out details that were completely invisible in the individual frames (let alone to the eye). Click the picture above for the full frame.
