Comet 73/P

Schwassmann-Wachmann 

This is my Comet 73/P Schwassmann-Wachmann page.  This year at TSP I spent several hours a night observing it's progress across the night western skies.  I used my TOA 130 and ST 8 XE CCD camera to take the images below and then decided to try my hand of making a video out of them.  I used MaxIm DL to capture the images, combine, calibrate, and then used Photoshop of the final processing.  Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did taking them. 

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    This was my first look at comet 73/P main piece.  It was taken on 04/24/2006 using my TOA-130, and my SBIG ST-8XE camera.  I took several images of this comet and combined them in MaxIn DL, and did my final processing in Photoshop. 

  This is a short video of the comet 73/P.  Click on the photo for the video. 

   This is comet 73/P "B".  I was taken on 04/29/2006 under very windy condition.  I used the same equipment as listed above.  If you look very close, you can see both heads. 

    This is a video of comet 73/P "B".  It consist of 45 images that are three minutes long.  I used the same processing that I listed above.  (click on the image for video.)

    This is comet 73/P "G".  It was very dim at TSP and I took this image on 04/29/2006.  The equipment used to image this comet is the same listed above. 

  This is a very short video of comet 73/P "G".  (click on the image for video.