Comet Africano on Oct 4, 2019


Date & Time: Oct 26 2019, from 20:31 to 20:49 JST(+0900)
Composed 7 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: Canon EOS 6D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3056×3056)
Device Size...20×20mm, Sensitivity...ISO4000


The comet C/2018W2 Africano in that day was positioned between Piscis Austrinus and Grus in lower evening southern skies. Although this image has intensive influence of haze, we can detect an 11th magnitude coma and an indistinct dust tail in northeast direction. The comet will move southward slowly from now on, be unobservable at Japan after end of 2019.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


Borisov on early morning of Oct 10, 2019
Africano on Oct 4, 2019

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