Comet Swift-Gehrels on Dec 14, 2018


Date & Time: Dec 14 2018, from 25:08 to 25:26 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 2 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: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO6400, White Balance...Daylight


In Dec 2018, the comet 64P Swift-Gehrels is crossing slowly from west to east in the Triangulum. The greenish coma in that day has a brightness of 9th magnitude and an apparent diameter of 8 arc minutes. You can see that the ionized composition has been a little distributed in southwest direction.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


Swift-Gehrels on Dec 28, 2018
Swift-Gehrels on Dec 8, 2018

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