C/2009 P1 from Glenhaven 2011-08-06

[mithrandir]

I got the G11 roughly aligned physically, aligned a few stars and told it to go to the coords Stellarium gave me for C/2009 P1 for 22:30. This image is where it pointed.

I lost some frames with cloud so it's 9x60 then a gap (14 minutes long) and 10x60 sec from 22:36 to 23:11. C8 + QHY8. It looks like I a need a new bad pixel map.

(RA, Dec) center: (21:21:5.336, +13:42:21.921)
Field size: 31.25 x 23.42 arcminutes

[jjjnettie]

:D nice capture! Got thwarted by clouds and fog too.

[peeb61]

Nice one Andrew! Interesting composition I might add and your image certainly shows how swiftly this object is moving in such a short space of time.

Paul

[Ross G]

Nice photo Andrew.

You caught it just before the clouds rolled in.

Thanks.

Ross.