46p 20180811 brosio-scarmato

Comet 46/P observed in the last two night from Calabria. Images taken in Luminance reduced don't show any peculiar structure in the inner coma and the pixellizzation non permit to separate the nucleus from the coma so the nucleus look like very small. Measured mag is 16.017 for 0.5' of aperture. The tail now is clearly visible and the afrho unfiltered is only 9 cm so the comet at the moment is a very poor dust object.