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Comet
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Object : | Comet, Iwamoto C/2020 A2 |
Coordinates/Direction : | - |
Object size : | - |
Object magnitude : | 11, at maximum |
More to know : |
You can read more about the comet on Seiichi Yoshida's homepage: http://www.aerith.net/ comet/ catalog/ 2020A2/ 2020A2.html |
2020-02-19, Comet Iwamoto |
Date : | 2020-02-19 |
Time (UT) : | 00:03 to 00:23 |
Mount : | SkyWatcher EQ6 Pro, beltdrive modified (DIY 2019) |
Guide : | QHY5 camera with 400 mm f/6.3 lens |
Lens/telescope : | TS130 APO f/7 910mm, 3" focuser |
Corrector/Barlow : | 3" field flatter, x1. T48 connector to camera |
Field (FOV) : | 2.25 x 1.5o (full frame) before crop |
camera : | Canon 6D, QE=0.5, full frame, 20 Mpixel, 14 bit |
camera temperature: | About 6o C above surrounding temperature |
Film/CCD : | Raw, Cr2 |
Filter : | none |
Control system : | Mount by EQMOD, camera by APT, guide by PHD2, focuser by USB-focus, ASCOM Windows PC |
Exp. time : | 14*60 seconds at 1600ISO |
Image process tool : | Siril, Gimp, Irfanview |
Processing : | Dark and flat calibrated |
Comment : | As usual we got bad weather and I got only 14 images this night. Still that was enough to let me see some traces of the comet. At bottom in the middle. The magnitude of the comet these days are about 12. |
Crop around the comet |
Date : | 2020-02-19 |
Time (UT) : | 00:03 to 00:23 |
Comment : | Looks that I got the comet near the edge of the field of the camera. My Goto precision was that good at that time. A bit strange look of the comet, it doesn't have any bright core. |
Star chart with CdC |
Date : | 2020-02-19 |
Time (UT) : | 00:03 to 00:23 |
Image process tool : | A star chart made with CdC (SkyChart) |
Comment : | Just to be sure that it's the comet Iwamoto on the photo I set up a star chart at the area for that time the photo was taken. |
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