Comet Africano on early morning of Aug 4, 2019


Date & Time: Aug 3 2019, from 26:29 to 26:58 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Koumi town, Nagano pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
Device Size...36×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO1600


The comet C/2018W2 Africano in that day was found at southern part of Camelopardalis in dawn northeast skies. A 11th magnitude coma was observed at about 12 degrees northeast of alpha Persei (Mirfak). You can recognize that the comet has no striking tails and almost no apparent movement. An open cluster in lower right hand side is IC361 in Camelopardalis. It is predicted that the comet will be observed with 8th magnitude in maximum in Oct 2019.
  The images is cropped with equivalent focal length of 1000mm: View angle: 2.05×1.36°


Africano on Sep 27, 2019
Iwamoto on Mar 9, 2019

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