Observation by Nick James: C/2019 (ATLAS)

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2020 Apr 08 - 19:16

Uploaded

2020 Apr 09 - 07:03

Objects

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

Equipment

C11 Edge HD + FLI6303

Exposure

30x60s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

C/2019 (ATLAS)

Title

C/2019 (ATLAS)

About this image

Here is my processed image of C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) from last night. The sky was very bright and observations were cut short by cloud. Seeing was very good with an FWHM of 2".4 and my pixel resolution is 1".3. The brightest part of the elongated inner coma is around 5 pixels downtail from the predicted position of the nucleus based on an orbit solution using data to March 25. That is consistent with the large RA residual I get with astrometry. 1 pixel represents a physical distance of 940 km on the sky plane at the comet.

Files associated with this observation

2019y4_20200408_2016_ndj.jpg (861.4 kB)

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