2026a1 20260209 mmasek

I would like to share my measurements of comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS), which has already become bright enough to be photographically detectable even with a small 135 mm f/2 camera lens + CCD. The images were obtained using the robotic instrument FRAM of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, located at the Cherenkov Telescope Array site in Chile, near Cerro Paranal.
The observations were carried out using the V photometric filter, and the final image is a stack of 56 × 120 s exposures. 
C/2026 A1 (MAPS):
2026 Feb. 09.08 UT: m1 = 14.5 CCD-V, Dia. = 3.2', 6.7-cm camera lens.
[Martin Mašek, Location: CTA-S, near Cerro Paranal; Comment: Comet Alt. 51.4]
Clear skies,
Martin Mašek