Comet 2017T2 PanSTARRS on Apr 25, 2020


Date & Time: Apr 25 2020, from 20:34 to 21:11 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: VIXEN 20cm(7.9") VISAC with conversion lens (f=1278mm, F6.4)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Hitachi-oota city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(7360×4912)
Device Size...FX format(36×24mm)
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


The comet C/2017T2 PanSTARRS in that day could be observed in evening northwest sky, positioned at the northern region of Camelopardalis. The coma with a dense-concentration has a brightness about 8th magnitude; the comet has a dust tail with a length of 20 arc minutes stretched in the south direction. Now the comet has around its maximum brightness, we can appreciated the comet until July 2020 under good conditions.
  This image has been cropped with an equivalent focal length of 1600mm: View angle: 1.28×0.85°


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