Images from the 2010 apparition: September
Copyright © 2010 by Bernhard Haeusler (Maidbronn, Germany)
This animation was obtained on 2010 September 2 using a 30-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector (f/5.65) and an SBIG ST-10-XME CCD camera. It was produced by using 20 one-minute exposures during a 22 minute period.
Copyright © 2010 by Martin P. Mobberly (United Kingdom)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 2.87 using a 35-cm Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector (f/7.7) and an SBIG ST-9-XE CCD camera. This was a 120-second exposure and it measures 13' by 13'.
Copyright © 2010 by Michael Jäger (Austria)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 5 at 22:09 UT using a 20-cm reflector (f/2.8) and an SXV-H9 CCD camera.
Copyright © 2010 by Gustavo Muler (Nazaret Observatory, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain)
Copyright © 2010 by Gary Kronk (Kronk Observatory, Illinois, USA)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 12.24 using an Orion EON 80-mm ED Apo refractor (f/6.25) and a Canon T2i digital camera. The camera was set at 1600 ISO and seven 2-minute exposures were obtained and subsequently stacked to produce this image. The field of view is nearly one degree.
Copyright © 2010 by Gary Kronk (Kronk Observatory, Illinois, USA)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 18.07 using my 20-cm Meade LX-200 and a MallinCam Hyper video system. The total exposure time was 7.5 minutes and the field of view was about 8 arc minutes.
Copyright © 2010 by Jose Manteca (Barcelona, Spain)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 19. Twenty 2-minute exposures were combined to bring out the comet's coma and show its motion with respect to neighboring stars.
Copyright © 2010 by Michael Jäger (Austria)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 20 at 22:09 UT using a 25-cm reflector (f/3.8) and an KAF6303 CCD camera. Michael combined a 210-second exposure using a red filter, a 270-second exposure using a green filter, and a 270-second exposure using a blue filter to produce this color image.
Copyright © 2010 by Gary Kronk (Kronk Observatory, Illinois, USA)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 25.08 using my 20-cm Meade LX-200 and a MallinCam Hyper video system. The total exposure time was 4 minutes 40 seconds and the field of view was about 8 arc minutes.Strong moonlight was present.
Copyright © 2010 by Jose Manteca (Barcelona, Spain)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 25. Twenty 2-minute exposures were combined to bring out the comet's coma and show its motion with respect to neighboring stars.
Copyright © 2010 by Gary Kronk (Kronk Observatory, Illinois, USA)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 27.08 using my 20-cm Meade LX-200 and a MallinCam Hyper video system. The total exposure time was 3 minutes 30 seconds and the field of view was about 8 arc minutes.
Copyright © 2010 by Gary Kronk (Kronk Observatory, Illinois, USA)
This image was obtained on 2010 September 29.07 using an Orion EON 80-mm ED Apo refractor (f/6.25) and a Canon T2i digital camera. The camera was set at 1600 ISO and five 2-minute exposures were obtained and subsequently stacked to produce this image. The field of view is nearly one degree.