Comet 8P/Tuttle

[brendant]

Finally managed to image this comet, really surprised by its speed, movement is visible in a 90 second exposure, the second image below is a stack of 20 x 1 Min exposures and really shows how fast this object is moving.

Used the information posted earlier on the forum to update Stellarium, obtained the co-ordinates earlier this evening and entered them into the EQ5 Goto handset after completing a polar and 3 star alignment procedure and it was in the field of view first time.

Pictures taken with a 400D at prime focus on 6" f8 Newt.

Brendan

[Carl]

Very nice, Nice dark skies ya got second one`s the best.

[Stephen Green]

The only place I could see it was in Belgium with bins not as good as your great picture

Stephen