As Comet Swan retreats to wherever it came from, it passed through a deep star field in Aquila

This is a stack of 10x5 minute exposures. The comet shows the drift over the time taken for the photo series. No tail was visible, and tracking on the comet did not increase the details.

Photo details: Orion 100mm x 600mm refractor, Canon 20D digital camera--all piggybacked on a Meade LX200 GPS.

Date: October 25, 2006 Time: 19:00 - 19:40 UT Telescope: 6 inch Refraktor, F/5 (with Reducer) Camera: SBIG STL-11000M Exposure times: 24x 90 seconds (3x3 Binning) Weather conditions: Very bad, because of many thin clouds.

I captured this wonderful scene looking through our city glow facing west at 9 pm CST. Notice on the right I was treated to a very faint meteor in the frame.

Photo details: Canon 30D and 50(f1.8) mm lens on a bogen tripod at ISO 800 F2.0 for 21 seconds.

The skies finally cleared, and I was able to catch a few images of Comet Swan as it set over the San Francisco Peaks on the western horizon.

Photo details: Canon 5D, 85mm, f/1.8, 10-15 sec exposures at ISO 1600.

Photo details: Nikon 800/5.6 ED-IF STL6303E bin 2x2 12 min LRGB

Comet Swan appears to have faded slightly from its outburst on the 24th. Tonight I estimated the head to be magnitude +5.4, still just visible to the naked eye and very obvious in binoculars and through the telescope's finder.

This evening Comet SWAN was not as bright as the day before, but it presented a long and strong ion tail.

Comet Swan visible to the naked eye from Marlborough, Ct. at approx mag 5.0. M 13 and Comet Swan visible in the same frame. A beautiful sight, both naked eye and through the telescope!

Photo details: Canon 20D modified, with a Nikon 105 Nikkor Lens, at f/5.6 at 2.50 min.

City light pollution is not keeping Comet Swan from amateur astronomers here in Tampa, Florida. I couldn't believe how bright the comet really is. I could even see it in a pair of 8x42 binoculars.

The strong tail has a surprising weak red colour.

Photo details: Canon 20D, Nikon 300mm (dig 480) f 1.2,8; 80sec; ASA 800;

Comet SWAN is a naked eye object and made a nice neighbor to M13 in Hercules this evening. Some thin clouds and the skyglow of Albuquerque are apparent in the image as well.

Photo details: Nikon D70 on Losmandy GM8, 2 minute exposure

On October 25th, the comet was visible to the naked eye for the first time. After a sudden boost of its activity SWAN reached mag 4.5. The image is a combination of 12 single frames of different exposure times each.

Photo details: SXV-M25C Starlight Xpress colour CCD camera, 24 inch reflector. #1 is an 80 Second exposure taken 19.13UT. #2 is a 2 minute exposure taken 19.22UT

Comet Swan appears to have brightened. In magnitude +5.5 skies with incoming cloud, I estimated it to be magnitude +4.6 on the evening of the 24th October - a fairly easy naked eye comet! The tail is now showing some interesting features too.