British amateur astronomer Martin Mobberley captured this gorgeous image of ISON yesterday on October 3, 2013 using iTelescope.
Comet #ISON imaged by Martin Mobberly via iTelescope http://t.co/RNetmBPYx5 #cometison pic.twitter.com/1H75ywgayX
— Comet ISON (@CometISONnews) October 3, 2013
Mobberley notes that the object in the tail is just a background star. Some research shows that this object appears to be a magnitude 16.5 star. Here’s what it looks like in Stellarium zoomed-in.
Updated 10/05/2013: Here’s an updated image from Mobberly of ISON on October 4th.
Comet #ISON imaged by Martin Mobberley via iTelescope on October 4th http://t.co/7qMmOV1JpL #cometison pic.twitter.com/MXF2tRV0xo
— Comet ISON (@CometISONnews) October 5, 2013
Original info:
A similar image was captured by Nirmal Paul on the same day using iTelescope.
Comet #ISON imaged by Nirmal Paul via iTelescope on October 3rd http://t.co/nCvJuLvEH9 #cometison #color pic.twitter.com/g6LBJwZaud
— Comet ISON (@CometISONnews) October 4, 2013
Images of ISON should be getting better now since light from the moon is causing less interference.
Also, with the Moon exiting the morning sky, we enter a two week period where it won't interfere with hunting for Comet #ISON.
— David Dickinson (@Astroguyz) October 4, 2013
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Comet ISON imaged by Martin Mobberley on October 3, 2013,