Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen photographed comet C/2007 E2 (Lovejoy). This comet was found with Canon EOS 350D digital camera. These photographs were taken 22/23.4.2007 night at THO. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi)

Comet is observed in Varkaus Taulumäki 10 January 2007. Photograph Markku Nissinen / Warkauden Kassiopeia ry. See all pictures about this comet in our gallery (in finnish). (Tämä uutinen suomeksi).

Comets 4P/Faye and C/2006 L1 (Garradd) were observed in THO 15.12/16.12 night. Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen, Henri Taino and Mari Laitinen. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi) 4P/Faye:   C/2006 L1 (Garradd):

Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen photographed again comet 4P/Faye in 16./17.11.2006 (21:45-22:16 finnish time). The comet is about 9.5 magnitude object and it is possible to observe visually even with small telescopes. In this CCD -picture, you can see a dim tail of the comet. At the time this picture was taken, the comet was low in […]

We observed  comet C/2006 L1 (Garradd) in Taurus Hill Observatory. The sky was very bright due the Moon. Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi)  

C/2006 M4 (Swan) comet was observed 29.10/30.10.2006. Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Hannu Aartolahti and Markku Nissinen. Following picture is taken using Canon EOS-350D camera. 30s exposure ISO 1600. Picture is cropped from larger picture. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi)

Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Hannu Aartolahti and Markku Nissinen observed and photographed the C/2006 M4 (SWAN) -comet in Taurus Hill Observatory 29./30.10.2006. The comet was photographed with observatory’s 12″ Meade S-C, Paramount ME -mount and SBIG ST-8XME -CCD camera. This picture is combined by four 30 sec. esposured individual picture. You can see the plasma and dust […]

Veli-Pekka Hentunen photographed SWAN (C/2006 M4) -comet and Levy (P/2006 T1) -comet in Taurus Hill Observatory 19./20.10.2006. SWAN was quite bright (about 5.5 magn.) but Levy was only 9.5 magnitude object. The weather was quite poor due the clouds. Also it was near sunrise and due that the sky was also a bit light. The […]

Veli-Pekka Hentunen took CCD pictures of Comet Barnard 2. Comet Barnard 2 (16/17.8):  

Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen in THO. 73-P C-component: 73-P B-component: 73-P G-component: 73-P R-component: