Comet Tabur on Oct 19 1996


Date & Time: Oct 19 1996, from 27:41 to 28:07 JST(+0900)
Composed 4 shots with 4 minutes exposed
Optical: TAKAHASHI 13cm(5.1") Newtonian with conversion lens (f=630mm, F4.8)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Camera: VIXEN VX-1
Film: Fujicolor Super G Ace 800
Location: Koumi town, Nagano pref.


The comet Tabur in that day has positioned in Ursa Majoe having a dimmed two-degree tail in west direction. I could detect a 6th magnitude bluish coma clearly with a binocular. At that time the comet was moving away from the Earth. It was reported that the comet disappeared to spread in the beginning of next month.



HB on Jun 15 1996
Tabur on Sep 15 1996

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