On the night of October 1st/2nd, 2010, Comet Hartley 2 made a close approach to the Pacman Nebula. I was fortunate to have great weather and devoted my whole night to imaging the get together.
Technical: 286 minutes of exposure (44×60 sec, 34×120 sec & 58×180 sec @ ISO 1600,) TV-85 at F/5.6, IDAS-LPS, Hutech Canon XS. (This image was also used in an online article at Sky and Telescope’s website, which is here: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/comets/102632669.html )
Comet Hartley 2 on September 15, 2010. Taken with a Meade 8″ F/4 Schmidt-Newtonian. 38 x 3 minute exposures combined and stacked.
Comet Holmes passing through a galaxy cluster. Note all the faint fuzzies in the background.
Comet Holmes on Dec 17, 2007 taken with the TV-85.
Comet Hale-Bopp in April 1997. This image was taken with a piggy-backed Nikon FE2 film camera and Kodak Royal Gold 1000 film and a Nikor 300mm F/4 lens. Exposure was about 10 minutes.
I have a quite a few images from back then. A few more are below:
