Comet 2014E2 Jacques on Sep 20, 2014


Date & Time: Sep 20 2014, from 19:09 to 19:31 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 3min. exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with a conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with BaaderPlanetarium Moon&Skyglow filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Canon EOS 600D (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(5184×3456)
Sensitivity...ISO3200


The comet 2014E2 Jacques in that day has positioned in evening zenith skies, can be found just west of an open cluster of Cr399 in Vulpecula. The coma has a brightness of 7th magnitude. Although we cannot detect any clear tails, the coma has distributed in eastern direction.
  The image has been cropped with an equivalent f=2000mm. (View angle: 0.63×0.42°)


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