2019y4 20200412 jwillinghan

Comet Atlas taken using iTelescope T11 on April 12th at 0301UT. This is composed of six 180s luminance channel images. Pushing the processing clearly shows four fragments. Is the thinking the the fragment out in front to the upper right is the main core????

OTA: Planewave 20" (0.51m) CDK

Optical Design: Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph

Aperture: 510mm

Focal Length: 2280mm (0.66 Focal Reducer Fitted)

F/Ratio: f/4.5

Guiding: Active Guiding Disabled

Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR

CCD: FLI ProLine PL11002M CCD camera

QE: 51% Peak

Full Well: ~60,000e- Anti Blooming Gate (ABG)

Dark Current: <.03 e-/pixel/sec. @ -35º C

Pixel Size: 9um Square

Resolution: 0.81 arc-secs/pixel

Sensor: Frontlit

Cooling: Set to -30ºC default

Array: 4008 by 2672 (10.7 Megapixels)

FOV: 36.2 x 54.3 arc-mins

Filters: AstroDon - Luminance, Red, Green, Blue. 3nm Ha3_50R, Sii3_50R, Oiii_50R. U, B, V, R, I

Position Angle: 271º