Comet Temple is cruising along, completely unaware that it's heading for a smashup with [a] NASA [probe] on July 4, [2005]
Here's an image I took on May 27, [2005]. It's not a very interesting comet and doesn't show a bright tail, but I would have been thrilled to catch the bright flash (with the DSI camera set on sub-second integrations) when the probe impacts it and vaporizes itself in order to carve a hole in the comet. However, Starry Night tells me it sets at this latitude at 1 a.m. on that date, so whether or not it will be possible to catch it is very iffy given the trees and high hills that stand in the way. Now if only I lived in Arizona, next door to Jack!
Image taken with a Meade 12" LX-200 using a Meade DSI imager.