Comet 2017T2 PanSTARRS on Nov 29, 2019


Date & Time: Nov 29 2019, from 23:43 to 24:20 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 4 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: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


The comet C/2017T2 PanSTARRS in that day was positioned at eastern edge of Perseus about 3 degrees west of Capella, alpha Aurigae. The coma had a visual brightness of 10th magnitude; I could estimate the length of dust tail in SSW direction as about 10 arc minutes from the image.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


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2017T2 PanSTARRS on Nov 3, 2019

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