Comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova on early morning of Feb 5, 2017


Date & Time: Feb 4 2017, from 29:13 to 29:26 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 1min. exposed
Optical: BORG 67FL with a conversion lens (f=324mm, F4.8)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with VIXEN ATLUX Equatorial
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...35×24mm, Sensitivity...ISO6400


The comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova passed the perihelion in Jan 2017 and moved to the eastern dawn skies. In that day the comet has positioned in central region of Aquila, closed to the Earth with a distance of about 0.1 au. The coma has an apparent diameter of over 10 arc minutes. However, I could detect no clear tails maybe due to apparent distribution of the gaseous composition.
  The image has been cropped with an equivalent f=500mm. (View angle: 4.10×2.73°)


Comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova on Feb 19, 2017
Comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova on Dec 30, 2016

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