Comets

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Comet WM1 Linear - Mag 7.5, in Perseus. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 1 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 5 minutes. 14th November 2001.
Comet WM1 Linear - Mag 8.5, in Perseus. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 1 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 8 minutes. 11th November 2001.
Comet A2 Linear - Mag 6.5, in Pegasus. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 1 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 10 minutes. July 2001.
Comet A2 Linear - Mag 6.8, in Vulpecula. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 1 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 15 minutes. July 2001.
Comet A2 Linear - Mag 6.8, in Vulpecula. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 1 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 15 minutes. July 2001. Processed with Kirsch filter shows the dust shells around the nucleus.
Comet A2 Linear - Mag 6.8, in Vulpecula. 200mm f3.5 lens guided by10" LX200, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 3 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 12 minutes. Field of View 1'x1.5'. July 2001.
com mcnaught-hartley.gif (82182 bytes) Comet 1999 T1 McNaught-Hartley - Mag 10, in Virgo. 10" LX200 at f4, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple 3 minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 15 minutes. April 2001.
Comet 1999 S4 Linear, Mag about 6.5, July 14th 2000, in Camelopardarlis, 10" Meade LX200 SCT f4.2, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD.  10 x 30 second exposures summed on the comet nucleus. Another pic here on 20th July.
comet1999s4linear.gif (63504 bytes) Comet 1999 S4 linear, in Perseus. Taken when Mag 14. Note tail to the right. This comet is predicted to be naked eye visibility in July 2000. 10" Meade LX200 SCT f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures : Effective integration time 12 minutes - summed on the comet (hence stars are rows of dots)
cometlee.gif (37411 bytes) Comet Lee - Mag 8, in Camelopardarlis. 10" LX200 at f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple one minute exposures summed on the comet : effective exposure 10 minutes.
jager.gif (47779 bytes) Comet P/1998 U3 Jager. Magnitude about 10.5, on borders of Auriga and Gemini. 10" Meade LX200 f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Single three minute exposure. February 1999.
m5linear.gif (41658 bytes) Comet M5 Linear. Magnitude about 9.6, in Gemini. 6" Carl Zeiss f15 Coude refractor, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures summed on comet: Effective integration time 5 minutes. March 1999.
ttut65m.gif (24080 bytes) Comet Temple-Tuttle. January 1998.
10" Orion Optics GX250 Newtonian f4.8, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures, summed on comet : Effective integration time 6.5 minutes.
meundup.gif (11052 bytes) Comet 1997 J2 Meunier-Dupouy. August 1998.
10" Meade LX200 SCT f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Multiple exposures, summed on comet : Effective integration time 8 minutes.
com_g-z.gif (147238 bytes) Comet Giacobini-Zinner at October 1998. 10" LX200 at f6.3, Starlight Xpress MX5 CCD. Sum of 8 frames, each 1 minute exposure, summed on the comet.
hb1a.jpg (9192 bytes) Comet Hale Bopp, 1997, 200mm lens, 35mm camera, asa800 film, 3 minute exposure.


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