anyone know if there is a comet in Andromeda

[toxic]

i have tried astrometry but it dos not detect it, or is this something else.

 

[MarsG76]

There's probably hundreds of millions of comets in Andromeda. ?

But well spotted on that little fuzzy.

 

[Star101]

http://www.cometwatch.co.uk/

May I suggest take a look here!

According to Cartes Du Ceil its 64P/Swift-Gehrels

 

[Davey-T]

Just posted a little animation of it in the comet section.

Dave

[toxic]

thanks star101 it looks like it could be 64p swift gehrels

[mcrowle]

Wonderful capture, Chris! 

I photographed 64P/Swift-Gehrels earlier this month but I haven't kept tabs on its track since, so I'm so glad I saw your post and the follow-ups by star101 and Dave. Thanks, all, for posting!

I was already out imaging IC 1396 under beautiful skies, but was then able to turn towards M31. Swift-Gehrels is still nicely framed with M31 at 135mm (with a cropped sensor).

Best regards, Mike.

[toxic]

great news  Mike look forward to seeing your images 

[mcrowle]

Here's my capture from Tuesday evening. Swift-Gehrels had not moved very far, Chris, since your image was taken a few hours previously.

I used a Canon EOS 600D and 70-300mm lens at 135mm and f/5.6 (I don't often use the zoom for imaging, by the way, but just happened to have it on the camera already). 11 x 4-minute frames at ISO 3200, registered and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker and post-processed with Canon Digital Professional (for curves) and Cyberlink PhotoDirector (for noise reduction and colour balance correction).

Regards, Mike.

[toxic]

that is very nice indeed Mike the image i posted was from the last part of the image run the first part is with the back side of my house facing east 5 x 10 second with tracking turned off.

then combined them for the final image above

[steppenwolf]

It's lovely to see a comet in a wide field context like this - well caught!

[MarsG76]

10 hours ago, toxic said:

that is very nice indeed Mike the image i posted was from the last part of the image run the first part is with the back side of my house facing east 5 x 10 second with tracking turned off.

then combined them for the final image above

What an awesome sky.... I wish we had something like the Andromeda galaxy down here....

 

[toxic]

6 hours ago, steppenwolf said:

It's lovely to see a comet in a wide field context like this - well caught!

thanks very much Steve  but just lucky ?

[toxic]

thanks a lot Mars

i wish we had the Magellanic clouds up here instead of the other clouds we get ?