Comet 8P/Tuttle
RA:-- -- --, Dec:+-- -- --, mag: -.-, Size:-x-, Dist: --- l.y.

(Click here to see AVI movie of movement over 19:15 UT to 20:01 UT (scale 3.7"/pixel), ~2.3MB)
Object:	P. F. A. Méchain (Paris, France) discovered this comet in 1790 and re-discovered by H.P. Tuttle (Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1858. It returns once every 14 years. During its 200-7-2008 apparition it passed 0.25 AU from Earth and was an easy binocular object and was visible to the naked eye for observers with very dark skies. It spent most of the latter half of 2007 close to the celestial north pole and then rapidly moved southward in December. By the end of January 2008, the comet was mostly visible to observers in the Southern Hemisphere. This comet is the parent of the Ursid meteor shower.
Exposure:	L: 6x300s, R: 3x300s, G: 3x300s, B: 3x300s
Equipment:	Pentax 75 SDHF f/6.6 refractor. Art11002 CCD. Astronomic LRGB TypeIIc filters.
Location:	7th Dec. 2007 20:00 UT, Oxford UK.
Processing:	Images combined in MaximDL.