Comet Machholz on Jan 1, 2005


Date & Time: Jan 1 2005, from 18:29 to 18:43 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 75 seconds exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro
Location: Hitachi city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3024×2016)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600, White Balance...Auto


You can see the comet Machholz captured on New Year day of 2005. The comet is positioned at about 10degrees southwest of the Hyades. I have taken this picture at a coast near a suburb city, strongly influenced by city lights along a national road, I couldn't catch a subtle structures of ion tail. But the ion tail seems fairly widen compared with a picture taken last time (Dec 30, 2004).


Machholz on Jan 7, 2005
Machholz on Dec 30, 2004

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