Comet Swift-Gehrels on Feb 1, 2019


Date & Time: Feb 1 2019, from 19:26 to 19:56 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 64P/Swift-Gehrels in that day has positioned at about 6 degrees northeast from the Pleiades (M45) in higher evening skies. The comet has a coma brightness of 11th or 12th magnitude, and the ionized composition has been dimmed compared with a previous observation.
  View angle: 0.70×0.70°


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