Comet 8P/Tuttle Passes through M33.

Guys on THIS SUNDAY night (30th December) Comet 8P/Tuttle passes right through the Pinwheel galaxy, M33. An ideal opportunity for visual or photographic observations. Mid transit is at local midnight and the Moon doesn't rise until 00:32UT so you can observe this in a dark sky.

I've written an article with more detail and charts for this on the AI website. Full article here;

www.astronomy.ie/tuttle.html

This is a very rare event not to be missed!!

Thanks for the head's up Dave,

Michael.

Dave et al,

Does anyone know the apparent motion of Comet Tuttle so that we can proceed with proper sub-exposures?

*Made a Sticky and posted in Celestial Events*

Does anyone know the apparent motion of Comet Tuttle so that we can proceed with proper sub-exposures?

Anthony,

Over the next 4 days the average apparent motion is 18.27"/Min. Thats gonna seriously limit sub exposure times, unless of course you guide on the comet nucleus.

Hi dave,

thanks for that....weather is ment to be clear for the weekend :lol: