Observation by Alex Pratt: Video astrometry of comet 41P/Tuttle-Gia...
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Alex Pratt
Observer
Alex Pratt
Observed
2017 Mar 26 - 19:28
Uploaded
2017 Mar 27 - 15:16
Objects
41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
Equipment
- C11 @ f/3.3
- Watec 910 video camera
- IOTA-VTI GPS time inserter
- Tangra software
Exposure
0.32s integrations
Location
Z92
Target name
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
Title
Video astrometry of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak
About this image
Video astrometry of comet 41P was obtained during the recent clear nights.
Tangra plate-solved ~200 video frames from each 1 minute recording. The comet had a sky motion of about 5"/min so Tangra computes a least squares fit to the movements in RA and Dec. Clicking on the mini-plot gives the motion-fitted RA and Dec (and magnitude estimate) at the selected instant and its corresponding 'normal' time, which is a 6-figure microday time format used by MPC when reporting GPS time tagged video observations.
The resultant MPC formatted lines are:-
0041P n2017 03 20.87768010 57 22.05 +53 18 35.4 13.3 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 20.90628410 57 35.42 +53 21 00.4 13.4 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 23.85462211 25 17.05 +57 17 39.7 12.2 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 23.87514711 25 29.85 +57 19 16.1 12.6 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 26.02071511 50 48.06 +59 54 23.0 12.9 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 26.04208511 51 04.06 +59 55 48.6 12.8 N Z92
0041P n2017 03 26.85289712 02 01.36 +60 48 29.1 12.7 N Z92
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