Comet 2017T2 PanSTARRS on Mar 20, 2020


Date & Time: Mar 20 2020, from 19:30 to 20:04 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 3 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 could be observed with 8.5th magnitude, was moving slowly in the Milky Way of eastern Cassiopeia. We can detect an evolved greenish ionized composition around the coma and a short dust tail with a length of 8 arc minutes stretched in southeast direction. From now on, the comet starts to move rapidly eastward; we will able to observe it in good conditions until the early summer of 2020.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


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