Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod
22x180sec at iso 1600
30 Darks/Flats/Bias
Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63

50% Crop

Processed in DeepSkyStacker so as to preserve star roundness and not trail the comet.


Comet 144P/Kushida was discovered by Yoshio Kushida in January of 1994 and has an orbital period of 7.2 years.

At the time of this image, Comet 144P/Kushida was about mag 10.8 and had a coma of 9 min. It's position was approximately RA 03 50' DEC +15 43

Orbital data and up to date daily info here.

Finder Chart

January 16, 2009