Comet Kushida on Jan 12, 2024


Date & Time: Jan 12 2024, from 23:02 to 23:31 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with IDAS LPS-P1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
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...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight


On this day, comet Kusida is positioned approximately 11 degrees southwest of the Pleiades (M45), along the border between Aries and Taurus. The brightness of the coma is 10th magnitude, and a tailless bluish-green coma has been observed. The comet is expected to rapidly move eastward from now on, with a forecast indicating it will brighten to the 9th magnitude between February and March 2024.
View angle: 0.70×0.70°


Kushida on Feb 11, 2024
Tsuchinshan 1 on Mar 2, 2024

Copyright(c) 2024 by Naoyuki Kurita, All rights reserved.
To top page To Comets&Meteors index