Images were taken at Hickory Run State Park, PA with 10" Meade LX200 and f/3.3 focal reducer with a peltier cooled greyscale quickcam.
ANIMATIONS:
.AVI animation of 39 one minute exposures:
Click HERE for large file (3.31M) - 320X240
Click HERE for smaller file (850K) - 160X120
July 8, 2000
23
one minute exposures stacked using DarkGen software.
ANIMATIONS:
.AVI animation of 23 one minute exposures:
Click HERE for large file (1.1M) - 320X240
Click HERE for smaller file (900K) - 220X165
The same scope at f/3.3 was used on July 6, 2000 at Cherry Springs State Park to image the comet with a friend (Tom Orff) and his Starlight Express MX5 CCD camera. For images and animations click HERE.