The faint tail of C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) needs a really dark sky. It is visible in the timelapse taken from Siding Spring, Australia.This consists of 10x60s exposures using iTelescope T09. The images were obtained just after 16:00 UTC on February 10. The FoV is 3 deg square and this is binned 4x4. There are lots of high-altitude, near equatorial satellites in this part of the sky!

Having seen David Swan's timelapse of C/2018 Y1  from this morning I've done the same thing with my images here. These are 60s frames running at 12.5 fps so a speedup ratio of x750. The comet was moving at 7 arcsec/sec in PA 304 deg and the FoV is around 2.5 x 1.5 deg. It's sky motion will accelerate over the next week as it gets closer to the Earth. The comet should be around mag 6 on Feb 12 not far from Regulus.

Last night was one of those rare nights when I got home early and the sky was clear and transparent from dusk until I had to go to bed just after midnight. Both telescopes ran without any problems and collected images of multiple different objects. The night started with a nova search in M31 and I still have multiple comet images to process. My meteor cameras also picked up some nice events so all-in-all a very productive night.

Timelapse of the TLE from my images this morning is here.

Clear here at the moment for the TLE. Hopefully it will stay that way through the night. My preliminary images will appear here.

During the 3 hour clearing last night (Jan 3/4) my video meteor system picked up 69 meteors, most of which were Quadrantids on maximum night. A (large) video showing all of these is here.