Comet 2017T2 PanSTARRS on Oct 26, 2019


Date & Time: Oct 26 2019, from 25:34 to 26:18 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 5 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3056×3056)
Device Size...20×20mm, Sensitivity...ISO4000


The comet C/2017T2 PanSTARRS in that day was positioned at only 35 arc minutes southeast of an open cluster of M36 in the pentagon of Auriga. The comet has an 11th magnitude coma, and you can detect a curved 5 arc minutes-long dust tail stretched in southwest direction.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


2017T2 PanSTARRS on Nov 3, 2019
Borisov on early morning of Dec 28, 2019

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