Comet 2011L4 PanSTARRS on Aug 19, 2012


Date & Time: Aug 19 2012, from 19:47 to 20:15 JST(+0900)
Composed 5 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: VIXEN 20cm(7.9") VISAC, with a conversion lens (f=1278mm, F6.4)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Nikon D700
Location: Hitachi-oota city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(2784×1848)
Device Size...DX format (24×16mm)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO3200


The comet PanSTARRS in that day has been positioned at a degree WNW from sigma Librae, a southern 3rd mag. star of the constellation, in lower southwest dusk skies. The coma has a visual brightness of about 11th or 12th magnitude, getting brighter than the prediction. And you can detect a short tail with a length of about 2 arc minutes in east direction.
This image has been trimmed to equivalent focal length of 2000mm.



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