Comet 144P (Kushida)

[Ross Wilkinson]

This comet was discovered by Japanese amateur Yoshio Kushida in 1994 and has a period of around 7.5 years.

I first detected it from my garden way back in 2008, then caught its 2016 return using one of the iTelescopes in New Mexico.

It's currently well-placed in Aries (not far from Jupiter), but is only around 12th magnitude, however it should get a bit brighter over the coming weeks.

This image is a stack of 79x 1-minute exposures with my Mx716 camera on the C8  scope operating at f/3.5