This movie 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, thus the comet brightness was between 14 and 15 mag. A past first-quarter moon brightened the sky. The images were preprocessed only. It may not be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright owner.