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| Widefield image taken with the Canon 600d Camera and an EOS telescopic lens at approx f=200mm. all mounted on a Star Adventurer Equatorial mount. The image is a stack of 10 x 2 minute exposures at ISO1600. Credit: KurtThrust |
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The comet is travelling through a star, gas and dust rich region in the constellation Cassiopeia. The star Segin is also known as Epsilon Cassiopeia.
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| Star Map credit Wikipedia |
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A cropped enlargement of the widefield image that shows the comet nucleus and smudge of a tail more clearly. Credit: Pip Stakkert.
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| Re-work of data using a combination of techniques and software but mainly reducing stars and hydrogen alpha background |
"The comet is very faint and at approximate magnitude +10, well below naked eye visibility. It is currently 320 million km distant from the Earth and will be at its closest in September this year. The comet is on a hyperbolic orbit and has travelled from the Oort Cloud". - Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.
For more information on the Oort Cloud
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