[BAA Comets] C/2014 E2 (Jacques)

[Nick James]

Morning all,

I had my first really good look at this comet this morning. It is now 
reasonably high in a dark sky from here and this morning was very 
transparent. My processed image is here:

http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/2014e2/2014e2_20140803_0212_ndj.html

I've tried a rotational gradient on a high SNR stack of unsaturated 
images and this seems to show some interesting activity in the inner 
coma (see the colourful inset). The rotation is centred on the coma 
photocentre as denoted by the single black pixel in the inset. Has 
anyone else been doing this?

The comet was easy in 11x80 bins and I also saw quite a few Perseids so 
definitely worth getting up for.

Nick.