Stars and a comet

Comet W2 AFRICANO in the constellation Andromeda - Altair Astro Lightwave 66mm. Doublet Refractor with 0.6x focal reducer and field flattener and Canon 600d DSLR all on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. Crop of a stack of 15x60sec lights at ISO1600. Credit: Kurt Thrust

The blue-white supergiant star alpha cygni otherwise known as Deneb.This star forms one of the vertices of the 'Summer Triangle' asterism. Altair Astro Lightwave 66mm. Doublet Refractor with 0.6x focal reducer and field flattener and Canon 600d DSLR all on a Star Adventurer equatorial mount. Crop of a stack of 40x60sec lights at ISO1600. Credit: Pip Stakkert.

" We have been trying to spot and image Comet W2 AFRICANO for some time without any success. With the Moon a late riser on Saturday night, we managed to capture it in the constellation Andromeda close to the bright stars delta and epsilon Andromeda. The comet is moving south quite quickly through Andromeda towards the constellation Pisces. This faint comet is showing a coma and a short tail".
- Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.

"Deneb is a spectacular star. It is very bright, very large and  very distant from our Solar System at 2,600 light years. Deneb has a mass approximately 19 times that of the Sun. It has such a large size that if it was to replace our Sun its outer surface would reach as far as the orbit of Earth". 
- Archie Mendes - visiting theoretical astronomer at the Jodrell Plank Observatory - Reydon University - 'School of Computer Modelling and Difficult Sums' 

" We are saddened to report that our friend and colleague Archie Mendes has been refused permanent UK residency. He will be missed at the Jodrell Plank Observatory. We will not see his like, wit and intelligence again, certainly not locally!". 
- Ivor Hump Chair of the Jodrell Plank Observatory Board of Trustees.