Comet 174P/Echeclus

[PepeChambo]

Comet 174P/Echeclus imaged on 2016 September 4th, during its last outburst. Discovered in 2000 was classified as an asteroid Centaur type circulating between orbits of Uranus and Jupiter, but years later it showed cometary activity with outbursts  in 2006, 2011 and the present in 2016, in which increased from 17.5 to 14.5 magnitude. In the image can be perceive a tiny elongated coma of 20 arcseconds toward Northwest.
 
Click on image for enlarge a bit:

GSO 8" f/3.8 & Canon EOS-100D unmodded (3 x 300 sec. at ISO-1600) from Hoya Redonda, Valencia (Spain)
 
Post and image link:
http://cometografia.es/174p-echeclus-20160904/

[Mr Spock]

Nice catch. That's a tough object to image.

[Pete Presland]

An interesting object and a fine capture!