Comet 108P/Ciffreo

 

 2014 Nov 23

Fainter and harder to photograph than C/2014 Q3 (Borisov) but I got it. It is just a faint smudge at the centre of this image, complicated by the fact that it passed very close to 3 faint stars while I watched it. In Auriga.

Canon EOS 5D MkII ISO6400
SkyWatcher 254mm Newtonian, f = 1200mm, f/4.8
HEQ5 mount unguided, 51 x 64s = 54.4 minutes total exposure
2014 Nov 23 at 21:42:55 - 22:47:07 UT
From Rookhope 54.8N 2.1W 330m asl. Rural, almost no light pollution (3 Bortles)

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