Comet 2017T2 PanSTARRS on Nov 3, 2019


Date & Time: Nov 3 2019, from 24:47 to 25:17 JST(+0900)
Composed 6 shots with 6 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 about 1.2 degrees ENE of an open cluster of M38 in the pentagon of Auriga. The coma had a visual brightness of 10th or 11th magnitude, a bit brighter than last week I observed. I could estimate the length of dust tail as about 7 arc minutes from the image.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


2017T2 PanSTARRS on Nov 29, 2019
2017T2 PanSTARRS on Oct 26, 2019

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