Comet 46P/Wirtanen photographed at Taurus Hill Observatory in the evening of 22.2.2008. The full moon made the observation a bit difficult, but still there is a quite bright object in the picture below. At the moment of the photograph the comet was about 28 degrees abowe the horizon. The clear filter was used for photographing and the exposure […]

Comet 8P/Tuttle is rapidly moving down and soon it becames more difficult to observe from northern hemisphere. But still it is very well located quite high in the nighttime sky. We took color pictures of it using Canon EOS 350D DSLR and Optec NextGen 0.5 focal reducer and Meade 12″ telescope. Picture 5/6.1.2008 night: Markku […]

Comets 46P/Wirtanen and 8P/Tuttle were observed at Taurus Hill Observatory 4.1.2008. The exposures in the pictures below were 11×90 sec. (Wirtanen) and 15×20 sec. (Tuttle). The field of view for Wirtanen is about 9×7 arc minutes and for the Tuttle 12×8 arc minutes. The weather was very clear, temperature -12 celcius, seeing about 2 and […]

Comet 8P/Tuttle was observed at THO 1.1.2008. The exposures in the picture below are 15×30 sec. and the field of view is about 12×10 arc minutes. The star just abowe the comet is GSC 1749-1022 and it has a brightness of 11.5 magnitudes.   Research team also obseved the comet 46P/Wirtanen (found by the finnish related Carl Wirtanen, […]

Photographs were taken using Canon EOS 350D camera and Paramount ME tracking system and camera mounting device made by Hannu Aartolahti 1.1./2.1.2008 night at THO. Photographs: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. 17P/Holmes 8P/Tuttle

Comet 8P/Tuttle is so bright that it is very visible in the picture below, despite the Moon that was very near at the moment of the photographing. Observatorys research team photographed the picture below 21./22.12.07 21:13-21:29 finnish time. The temperature was +2 celcius and the weather was very wet. Seeing was also quite poor. Observers: […]

The comet 8P/Tuttle, which is the source comet for Ursids, has been observed at Taurus Hill Obsevatory 18./19.12.2007 21:29 – 22:05 (finnish time). Despite the half moon and the small fog, the comet was also easily observed with binoculars. The pictures below are taken with the observatorys SBIG ST8-XME CCD -camera and the exposures were 12×60 sec. and […]

Comet 17P/Holmes was photographed 16.12.2007 evening at THO. Picture was taken using camera mount made by Hannu Aartolahti and Paramount ME tracking system with Canon EOS 350D camera at 200mm lens setting. Picture: Markku Nissinen / THO Observing Team.

Comet 17P/Holmes was photographed 12/13.12.2007 night at THO using Canon EOS 350D camera with 55-200mm lens using Paramount ME tracking system and camera mount made by Hannu Aartolahti. Observers at THO: Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen.

Comet 8P/Tuttle is gradually brightening. We managed to photograph it after two week cloudy period 19/20 November 2007 at 00:42 – 01:15 local time at THO. It is high in the sky near Polar Star. It has in the picture about 0,5 arc minutes coma and very weak tail structure. We took 12 x 150s […]