View Single Post
  #1  
Old 08-08-2008, 09:27 PM
Dennis
Dazzled by the Cosmos.

Dennis is offline
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 11,817
Help in identifying a (new?) comet in Sagittarius…

Hello,

Tonight, August 8th 2008, whilst taking a photo of the Hubble Space Telescope passing by Jupiter I noticed a faint blue object near the recorded trail of the HST. The FOV is approx 2 x 1.25 degrees.

Subsequently, I took several other photos of the object and it shows distinct movement as show in the attached composite image.

I have tried a quick search using my normal software and could not locate a current comet in this position.

Cheers

Dennis
Attached Thumbnails
Click for full-size image (Comet Composite copy.jpg)
82.9 KB77 views
Reply With Quote