Observation by Terry Evans: C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto

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Terry Evans

Observer

Terry Evans

Observed

2019 Feb 13 - 13:27

Uploaded

2019 Feb 13 - 14:22

Objects

C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto)

Equipment

Moravian G4-16000
Orion Optics AG12
Paramount ME

Exposure

10 * 60s

Location

Warrumbungle Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW

Target name

C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto

Title

C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto

About this image

Quite a difference in the tail's PA over 48 hours! Quite a pretty bifurcated tail now. I managed to see it with my 15*50 binoculars from Somerset at 2019-02-12 01:30 UT. It's quite faint (compared to, say, 46P last December) but was fairly obvious near Regulus.

Files associated with this observation

C2018 Y1 10 by 60s b2 Sum DDP(Mid) Halfsize LA Crop Annotated.jpg (379.4 kB)

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