Comet Lulin on early morning of Jan 25, 2009


Date & Time: Jan 24 2009, from 28:15 to 28:58 JST(+0900)
Composed 8 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with a conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Nikon D50 (Remodeled)
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...12bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(3008×2000)
CCD Sensitivity...ISO1600


The comet Lulin in that day has been positioned at center of Libra. The comet has a round coma with diameter and brightness of 10 arc minutes and about 7th magnitude, respectively, I could detect a dimmed light only with a portable binocular. This image shows you an indistinct anti-tail with a length of over 20 arc minutes in east direction.


Lulin on early morning of Feb 1, 2009
Lulin on early morning of Dec 29, 2008

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