Boattini on early morning of Jul 6, 2008

Comet Boattini on early morning of Jul 6, 2008

Date & Time:	Jul 5 2008, from 26:46 to 26:57 JST(+0900)
	Composed 6shots with 2 minutes exposed
Optical:	TAMRON SP f=300mm F2.8 with a conversion lens (f=420mm, F4.0)
	Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera:	Nikon D80 (Remodeled)
Location:	Subashiri halfway up Mt. Fuji, Shizuoka pref.

Camera Settings:	Recording format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3872×2592)
	CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600

I have captured the comet Boattini for the first time in last two months in lower dawn skies. In that day the comet has been positioned at western edge of Taurus near a border to Cetus with a coma brightness of about 6th magnitude. And we can detect an indistinct tail stretched toward southwest in this image. The comet will leave from the Earth from now on, but we can observe the comet easily because its elevation will rise in July and August 2008.

Boattini on early morning of Aug 3, 2008

Boattini on May 3, 2008

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