* * * Images of 168P/Hergenrother * * *




This image was obtained by Albert van Duin from his backyard observatory in Beilen, The Netherlands on December 2, 2012. It is a stack of 5 300s exposures taken between 17h16m and 17h42m UT through a 40-cm f/4.5 Newtonian reflector, equipped with a QSI583 CCD in 2x2 binning mode.




This image was obtained by Albert van Duin from his backyard observatory in Beilen, The Netherlands on November 18, 2012. It is a stack of 9 300s exposures taken between 19h43m and 20h29m UT through a 40-cm f/4.5 Newtonian reflector, equipped with a QSI583 CCD in 2x2 binning mode.




This image was obtained by Emiel Kempen from his backyard observatory in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands on November 18, 2012. It is a stack of 10 120s exposures taken between 19h45m and 20h07m UT through a 25-cm reflector equipped with a Canon 40D camera set at ISO400.




This image was obtained by Emiel Kempen from his backyard observatory in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands on November 5, 2012. It is a stack of 54 60s exposures taken between 18h03m and 19h14m UT through a 25-cm reflector equipped with a Canon 40D camera set at ISO400.




This image was obtained by Emiel Kempen from his backyard observatory in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands on October 7, 2012.
It is a stack of 100 60s exposures taken between 19h06m and 20h55m UT through a 25-cm reflector equipped with a Canon 40D set at ISO400.




This image was obtained by Albert van Duin from his backyard observatory in Beilen, The Netherlands on October 7, 2012. It is a stack of 24 180s exposures taken between 18h39m and 20h00m UT through a ASA 20-cm f/2.75 reflector which automatically guided on the head of the comet.




The second image to the right shows that 168P can also be clearly imaged with very simple means. This is a single video frame of 2.56s intergration time, taken on October 4 around 10h15m UT, by Chris Wyatt through a 25-cm f/4 reflector equipped with a x0.5 focal reducer and GStar ExC Astro video camera.