[APML]: Comet Temple-Tuttle photo opportunity

["Tom Krajci" <krajcit@det5wg57.barksdale.af.mil>]

Want a photo challenge this weekend?  Why not comet Temple Tuttle?  
Check out http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ for reports on one of the 
brighter comets in the sky at this time.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/Ephemerides/Comets/0055P_1.html has 
a daily listing of it's location.

It's about magnitude 7.5 right now, 15 arcminute coma, 15 arcminute 
tail.  

So what's the challenge?

It's moving south at a high angular speed, about four degrees per 
night!  Can your equipment and technique handle the challenge?  (I'm 
praying for clear weather so I can use the dreaded Celestron 
Microguide eyepiece linear scale drift guide technique from hell on a 
fixed guide star. . .and you thought manual guiding on a cross hair 
was bad! ;-)

This is an interesting comet because the debris it leaves in its 
orbit is the cause of the Leonid meteor shower every mid-November.  
And in '98 or '99 the Leonids are gonna peak in a big way!

Tom Krajci

Capt Tom Krajci
B-52 Intelligence Officer
"In God we trust, all others we monitor!"
http://spur.barksdale.af.mil