Spiral galaxy M33, the Triangulum Pinwheel, shares the frame with comet Linear C/2002 T7.  The photo was made on December 21, 2003 through a William Optics Megrez 80mm refractor equipped with a  violet reduction filter and TeleVue field flattener/0.8x reducer (TeleVue part number TRF2008).  The film was Kodak Supra 400. Two 45-minute exposures were processed in Registax and Adobe Photoshop CS.  Photo by Daniel Johnson of Evansville, Indiana, USA.
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