I'm not much of an observational astronomer - but using iTelescope scope 11 - I think I caught motion in ISON over 19 hours.

And another observation. 5 images of 500sec exposure with iTelescope scope 5.

Comet ISON has a stubby tail by now. Here's an image from last night (Feb 9.2 UT) with the 1m SARA-N remote telescope at Kitt Peak. This was a 5m exposure in red light, about as long as will not show obvious trailing from the comet's motion. Incoming!

(I'm on the southern counterpart in a couple of nights and there are a couple of comets I want to check on from that hemisphere).

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Got it again - Scope 11 of iTelescope this time. 300sec exposures
$35k of telescope and $6k of CCD...and it cost me $26 to use it for 25 minutes

Here's one of the frames, full size..... find the comet :0 http://dougellison.smugmug.com/Photography...1-W-300-002.jpg

Great work again Doug, really impressed with that. Looking forward to more of those as ISON warms up...

If anyone is interested, I've interviewed Nick Howes, a professional astronomer involved in studying ISON (and PANSTARRS) on my "Waiting for ISON" blog. I think it contains some fascinating insights into the life and work of a professional astronomer.

http://waitingforison.wordpress.com/updates-and-images

Not ISON but I saw Comet PAN-Starrs briefly today through 8x40 binos. It was pretty dim, but a tail was discernible. It does not look like the images you see on the web though.