This my initial effort at photographing periodic comet P73 Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 from ouside of Greenville NC on April 18, 2006. This is a 30 second exposure at F10 taken through a Celestron NexStar 11 telescope with a Nikon D70 camera. For reference the 3 bright stars near the bottom of the photo are manitude 11 and the comet is in the upper center.
