Giacobini-Zinner on early morning of May 21, 2005

Comet Giacobini-Zinner on early morning of May 21, 2005

Date & Time:	May 20 2005, from 27:01 to 27:11 JST(+0900)
	Composed 4 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical:	Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
	Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera:	Nikon D70 (Remodeled)
Location:	Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings:	Recording Format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 8bit TIFF(3008×2000)
	CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600

The comet Giacobini-Zinner in that day has positioned in eastern edge of the Pegasusu's rectangle, I could observe with its brightness of 11th magnitude in eastern dawn sky. And you can see a dimmed tail in west direction with its length of about 3 arc minutes.

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