Comet 8P/Tuttle and Mars in Auriga.

[Jurgen de Boer]

After photographing 2 bright comets in Januari (McNaught) and November (Holmes), last night the weather was finaly good enough to try to photograph the comet 8P/Tuttle.

I used a Canon EOS350D set at 2,5 minutes, 800 ISO and a 100mm telelens piggyback on telescope.

The comet itself was a bit hard to see.

Here are the results, I hope you enjoy them.

On the same evening i also photographed te planet Mars.

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fascinating stuff!Thanks

[Chris Knight]

After photographing 2 bright comets in Januari (McNaught) and November (Holmes), last night the weather was finaly good enough to try to photograph the comet 8P/Tuttle.

I used a Canon EOS350D set at 2,5 minutes, 800 ISO and a 100mm telelens piggyback on telescope.

The comet itself was a bit hard to see.

Here are the results, I hope you enjoy them.

On the same evening i also photographed te planet Mars.

Beautiful. Holmes is still up there, looking huge (the largest object currently in the solar system), just visible to the naked eye from a dark sky site, and easy with binoculars.