Tonight I noticed I'd just passed 103 nights of imaging in my observatory this year. 103 reminded me of Comet 103P/Hartley (yeah, my mind is wired weird). So to commemorate the event I shot a series of 13 ten second exposures of the comet each spaced 5 minutes apart between 0901 and 1004 UTC (0301-0404 MDT) and strung them together in an animation. Specs: C-14 @ f/5.5, ST-10 binned 3x3, C filter, FOV ~ 18' x 26'. North is up, east to the left. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/103PHARTLEY20101001.GIF I didn't do anything "heroic" to the raw files other than apply a master dark and master flat and remove several hot and cold pixels. If anyone would care to have a go at bringing out more cometary structure I'd be happy to email them the originals. patrick