Comet Africano on Sep 27, 2019


Date & Time: Sep 27 2019, from 19:39 to 19:59 JST(+0900)
Composed 7 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 16cm(6.3") epsilon (f=530mm, F3.3)
with IDAS LPS-D1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI JP Equatorial & SBIG STV
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5472×3648)
Device Size...36×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO2500


The comet C/2018W2 Africano in that day was found at about 4.3 degrees WSW from gamma Peg. in evening eastern skies. The coma has a visual brightness of 8th magnitude and an apparent diameter of about 7 arc minutes. You can recognize that the comet has a dimmed dust tail in north direction. The comet will move southward rapidly from now on, become unobservable at northern hemisphere in Nov 2019 onward.
  The images is cropped with equivalent focal length of 1000mm: View angle: 2.05×1.36°


Africano on Oct 4, 2019
Africano on early morning of Aug 4, 2019

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