a spectacular comet!

... and it was clear, too!

A-P 10" mak with DMK 41AF02 webcam - taken in white light and colorized in Adobe Photoshop.

best,
Alan

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Beautiful!

Can't wait to go out and see it.

Nice image Alan !

Unfortunately clouded out here except for a small break where I could make one widefield
image.

Hopefully tomorrow will be clear (but little hope).

Dodi

That's the best photographic approximation of the visual appearance of this weird comet I've seen yet.

Hi Al, beautiful image and congratulations on being the first to capture this heavenly visitor! I see that it was only about 17th magnitude on October 23rd, a gain of 14 magnitudes in one day and this comet is still rapidly increasing in brightness, that's unheard of. Since it's so far from the Sun I would rule it out as the cause. My guess is it was struck by an Orionid meteor or in other words a piece of Haley's comet? Cheers, Dan

Wow! super image Alan! I had my telescope out on Thursday morning so my boys could see the comet before going to school; this is exactly as it appeared. It doesn't look much like a "normal" comet, as we are generally situated between the comet and the sun, so the tail is really pointing away from us (and a little to the side).

Cheers!