Comet Iwamoto on Mar 9, 2019


Date & Time: Mar 9 2019, from 18:56 to 19:24 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 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 & Pictor 201XT
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/2018Y1 Iwamoto in that day was found at about 1.5 degree northwest of iota Aug., a southwest star in the Auriga's pentagon. The second image also shows you another nebula of IC410 in eastern side and open clusters of M36 and M38. The comet has an 8th magnitude greenish coma. We will able to observe the withdrawing comet in evening higher skies for the near future.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


Africano on early morning of Aug 4, 2019
Iwamoto on Mar 1, 2019

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