Comet 67P again

[Ross Wilkinson]

This is the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko which was famously visited by ESA's Rosetta probe a few years ago.

I had a look at it back in January, when it was close to its peak (magnitude 9), but now it has faded down to 11th magnitude - however its tail is still visible:

That's from 75x 1-minute exposures with my Mx716 camera on the C8 at f/3.5.

[Ross Wilkinson]

After clear skies all afternoon, I decided to have another look at the comet last night. Unfortunately a layer of hazy cloud came over as it went dark, but as I'd already set up the 'scope by then, I decided to have a go anyway. Surprisingly, I could still detect this 12th magnitude target (with even a hint of its tail) even though the sky wasn't properly clear:

This is a stack of 62x 60-sec, and a lot of Gradient Removal was required!