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Comet Hartley 2
Both the 20 inch Telescope and Observatory and the Wide field camera have been used to observe the comet. Malcolm Hartley was the first person I spoke to when I arrived at Faulkes Telescope South back in 2004 while I was working for TTL. Malcolm worked on the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. The is next to the Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) I was working on at the time. He discovered the comet back in 1986. Rob McNaught (who has discovered many great comets) is close by with the Uppsala Shmidt Telescope.

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The video below was taken between 21:45 and 22:30 UT on the 6th October 2010. Taken with the 20 inch Telescope and Observatory

It is a video of 45 minutes of the Comet moving across the background stars.

A total of 121 images (15 seconds each) were used to create it.

The movie was created in MaximDL. The link below was how Brendan created the video from the Images I had taken. http://bmsupernova.wikispaces.com/CREATING+MOVIE+FROM+FITS

It will play in Windows Media Player:-

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The image below was taken with the Wide field camera. This is a 4 x 60 second exposure taken at 21:02 UT on the 6th October 2010