ESO Schmidt Telescope photographs both Jupiter and Comet A unique photographic plate was taken with the ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope by ESO night assistant Guido Pizarro during the night of July 11-12, 1994. The very bright image of Jupiter appears as a huge dark spot on this long exposure, and the cometary fragments, about 100 million times fainter than the planet, are also clearly visible below and to the right of the centre in the outskirts of the Jupiter halo, at about 4:30 o'clock relative to Jupiter. They show up as a short string of individual nuclei in a line of dust that points directly towards the planet. Only a large photographic instrument like this is able to show the comet and Jupiter at the same time. This plate is now on its way to the photographic laboratory at the ESO Headquarters in Garching where it will be photographically enhanced. It is expected that it will be available early next week. This provisional, scanned version (that certainly cannot compete with the original and much less with the photographically enhanced copy to be made) gives a first impression. It only shows a very small section of the original plate.