Comet Stephan-Oterma on Feb 1, 2019


Date & Time: Feb 1 2019, from 22:43 to 23:16 JST(+0900)
Composed 9 shots with 4 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 38P Stephan-Oterma in that day has positioned at central region of Lynx near a boundary on Ursa Major. Presently the comet is hardly moving due to the relative position with the Earth. A dust tail stretched to west direction has been dimmer with a length of about 10 arc minutes.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


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Stephan-Oterma on Dec 29, 2018

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