May 30, 2020 No comments Comets

Comet Atlas March-April, 2020

Posted by John Law

Comet ATLAS (C/2019 y4)

First imaged March 23,2020 7:40 pm until the camera battery died at 11:56. Collected 398 files of 30 seconds each for 199 minutes of data.

iOptron Skywatcher mount
Nikon D7500
Sigma 150-600
FL 600 mm
F 6.3
ISO 800
5600×3728

Single frame of data

Comet aligned integration using Pixinsight

Here is the star align integration of the region imaged.

With the equatorial grid applied

And it’s always fun to see where the background galaxies are.

On April 12 I tried again but accidentally got NGC 2403 instead. On April 14 I found Atlas and collected more data.

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