Comet 2007Q3 Siding Spring on early morning of Jan 17, 2010


Date & Time: Jan 16 2010, from 26:27 to 26:08 JST(+0900)
Composed 6 shots with 8 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt Cassegrain with a conversion lens (f=1760mm, F7.1)
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Nikon D50 (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3008×2000)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600


This image shows you the comet Siding Spring positioned in western Bootes. The comet has a coma with its brightness of about 9th magnitude and a short dust tail in west direction with a length of about 12 arc minutes.


Siding Spring on early morning of Jan 23, 2010
Siding Spring on early morning of Jan 11, 2010

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