Comet Brewington on Nov 30, 2013


Date & Time: Nov 30 2013, from 18:16 to 18:42 JST(+0900)
Composed 7 shots with 4min. exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with a conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 600D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
Sensitivity...ISO3200


The comet Brewington in that day has positioned at about 1.5 degrees south of zeta Peg. at the neck of winged horse in higher dusk skies. The greenish coma has a visual brightness of about 10th or 11th magnitude, a bit elongated in east-west direction.
  The image has been cropped with an equivalent f=1800mm. (View angle: 0.70×0.47°)


Brewington on Dec 7, 2013
Encke on early morning of Nov 12, 2013

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