Photo details: Pentax 105 SDP @ f5 through my Canon 5D at ISO 1600, 2 x 300 seconds exposure

This shows the comet path for 5 hours and 5 min. Comet is moving from right to left. The intensity of the comet appear to fade a little at the end, that is only because of greater lightpollution during the night as the object moves over the light from a nearby airport.

Tony, What a surprise it was to record a beautiful thin gas tail streaming from the comet on this evening. Our deep exposures of the pair show not only the fine details in the M33 Galaxy, but a huge cyan comets coma, sharp stellar nucleus, and a long thin plasma tail extending to the upper right. This image was taken in a 3 hour long continuous dual stream of data and combined sigma reject directly onto the 7:02 pm data.

Photo details: Canon XTI, ASA800, 3hours exposure.

Really beautiful night and a beautiful pairing of a galaxy and comet.

I was hoping the faint tail would show. It was there but the color filtered images blocked it. This is a grayscale image using the 5" and ccd. Image rotated 90 deg cw. Image is a 2 frame mosaic with a 2x2 bin to gather more info but less detail.

It was a good show to see two almost equally bright objects at vastly different distances close to each other in the sky.

Beautifully contrasting colors of M33 and 8P/Tuttle. Due to the fast movement of Tuttle it took some processing to obtain this color image from different 2-minute R,G,B and L exposures! Homebuilt CCD-camera, RGB-filter set and f=300mm Telephoto lens at F#4.