Comet Brewington on Dec 7, 2013


Date & Time: Dec 7 2013, from 19:01 to 19:31 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 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 4.5 degrees southwest of alpha Pegasi, Markab, the southwest star of the Pegasus's square. Only greenish coma of 4 arc minutes in diameter can be observed, the image shows that the coma is extraordinary distributed.
  The image has been cropped with an equivalent f=1800mm. (View angle: 0.70×0.47°)


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