Comet Wild 2 on Feb 6, 2010


Date & Time: Feb 18 2010, from 24:46 to 25:40 JST(+0900)
Composed 6 shots with 10 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt Cassegrain with a conversion lens (f=1760mm, F7.1)
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


This picture shows you the comet Wild 2 around northeast of Spica. It was good transparency condition, you can recognize long dust tail and dimmed ionized composition surrounding the coma clearly.


Wild 2 on Mar 13, 2010
Wild 2 on Feb 6, 2010

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