C/1999 U4 (Catalina-Skiff) 2000-Nov-01 Chris Schur

Comet Catalina-Skiff in Perseus. 12.5" f/5 SBIG237 CCD, 5mins. With the huge amount of rain and clouds this October, one clear night after a rainstorm passed was clear. This image was taken of an extremely faint comet, magnitude 14.0. it is only 10 arcseconds in diameter to boot. Sheets of ice were hardening all over the telescope, and optics, charts and laptop. The mount hit the wall at the very end of the exposure, causing some trailing of the images, but the comet was still recored well. (The next day I saber sawed the offending stud so that doesnt happen again!)