... FSQ has an Apogee camera and filter wheel for star clusters, nebulae and comets ... variable stars, nebulae through narrow-band filters, comets, the Moon, and planets ... following paths of planets, viewing the tails of comets, and spotting asteroids ...
... In late 1995, for observations of comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake, WISPI with its original liquid nitrogen cooled, back-illuminated, thinned CCD was located in the main dome at Moore Observatory. ...
... is the first frame processed image Position of comet nucleus in first frame: 4:07:20.3 +45:28:44 c2013x1_00094_nsew.png is an asinh stretch of the first frame cropped and centered on the comet The video is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be ...
... WISPI was used by Pamela Graham for studies of bright comets, including Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake. ... Click here for a look at WISPI when it was in the main dome at Moore Observatory for observations of Comet Hale-Bopp. ...
... Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on UT 2012-10-02 at 6:43. ... Comet ISON, indicated here inside the 15 arcsecond diameter circle, is approximately ... The comet's surface brightness is only slightly greater than the sky. ...
... Moore Observatory , in a forested nature preserve near Louisville, Kentucky, offers complementary remote services, live images of bright planets and the Moon, and the occasional northern comet and supernova to students in Queensland. ...
... The Schmidt camera was used for recording images of comets, and for active galactic nuclei (AGN) monitoring programs that benefited from its exceptional field of view. ...
... A Wide Field Spectral Imager (Wispi) is also used for graduate student research work on the the dust content of galactic nebulae and for bright comet spectroscopy. ...