Observation by Nick James: C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2020 Mar 02 - 22:46

Uploaded

2020 Mar 08 - 00:13

Objects

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

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Constellation

Ursa Major

Field centre

RA: 10^h55^m
Dec: +59°36'
Position angle: -0°18'

Field size

0°32' × 0°23'

Equipment

C11 Edge HD + FLI6303

Exposure

25x60s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

Title

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

About this image

This comet is currently brightening quite rapidly (it is probably brighter than 10th mag now in a dark sky) and it has a small perihelion distance of 0.25au. It may become quite a nice object over the next few months as it approaches perihelion but note that some of the brighter predicted magnitudes quoted elsewhere will occur when the comet is at a small elongation. Perihelion is on May 31 when the elongation is 12 degrees.

Files associated with this observation

2019y4_20200302_2246_ndj.jpg (979.3 kB)

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