A quick animation of unprocessed JPEGS showing the motion of 8P/Tuttle across the field of the 130/780 refractor over a 48 minute period. From the Comet's Perspective.

In order to view this animation, you must right-click the image and then select "download original file" and then click "open" or download the original image and double click it to start it running.

The field of this refractor is 99x66 arcmin, so you can see how fast this object was moving. I calculate this motion to be 8.7 arcsec/minute or 7.0 arcmin over the 48 minute span.

December 26, 2007