Friday, October 15, 2010
Comet 103P/Hartley near NGC 1491

Last night I got some images of the comet near the nebula NGC 1491 and the Open cluster King 7. To the immediate left is a cropped wide-field shot from Global Rent a Scope GRAS 14 (stack of 3 black and white images at 60 seconds each). Click to embiggen (it's worth it). Due to stacking the images on the stars the comet is smeared.

I have have been taking images of 103P for nearly 2 weeks. I really should post them.
Labels: astrophotography, comets, Global Rent-a-Scope