The central part of the comet was estimated to be between magnitude 14 and 15. The exposures were added by centering on the comet nucleus. No additional filters were used. A 1002 kb mpeg movie is available from the same author and technique that consists of the animation of 105 30-seconds CCD pictures. The field of view spans 8.3 x 10.0 arcminutes.
North is up, East is left.
The comet was traveling in the Ursa Major constellation, high in midnight sky. The brightness of the star in the lower right corner is 14.3 mag. A past first-quarter moon brightened the sky. The images were preprocessed only.