282p 20200215 jmaikner

Possible recovery of Comet 282P/Asteroid 2003 BM80

Object: Comet 282P/Asteroid 2003 BM80

Date: 2020-02-15, 00:32:02 UTC

Observer: John J. Maikner

Camera: QHY163M

Image capture data:

Exposure: 40 X 180 sec.

Filters: None

Binning: 2 X 2

Temp -15.0 o c

Pixel scale: 1.369 “/pix

Instrument type: Astro-Physics refractor

Instrument aperture: 155 mm,

Instrument focal length: 1085 mm/F7

Mount: AP-1200, GTOCP4,

Tracking software: PHD2, Ver. 2.6.7

Capture software: SGP, Ver. 3.1.0.451

Processing software:

PixInsight, Ver.1.8.8.2

Tycho Tracker, Ver. 5.0

Astrometry and Photometry: Tycho Tracker

Reference star catalog: Gaia DR2

Object tracking: Synthetic tracking

Observatory MPC code: Pending

Object Information

Magnitude: 20.50 V

Sky motion:

Speed: 0.396 “/min

P.A.: 281.6

Positions:

W3137 KC2020 02 15.08396 09 08 23.12 +22 50 11.4 20.5 V

W3137 KC2020 02 15.11525 09 08 21.85 +22 50 14.5 20.4 V

W3137 KC2020 02 15.14774 09 08 20.53 +22 50 18.2 20.6 V