Comet 8P/Tuttle on Dec 9, 2007
Comet 8P Tuttle is predicted to brighten to about magnitude 6 in early January. Its currently maybe 9.8 or so. My third try on this one. Its getting a bit further south now so its a bit easier for those of us with equatorial mounts than it was last month.
Image taken from light polluted Louisville, CO with Celestron Nexstar11 telescope, Meade F3.3 focal reducer, and Stellacam II video camera, 9/14 gain, 128 frames integration (~4 sec exposure). Registax4 used to dark subtract, flat field correct, align, and stack 30 frames, 75% quality, #2 wavelet at 2.4 to sharpen slightly, histogram corrected from level 8 to 200. Enhanced, aligned and animation created with Photoshop Elements2.