Observation by dbartlett: Another Colorful Swing-by for Comet C/20...

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Observer

dbartlett

Observed

2023 Feb 12 - 00:00

Uploaded

2023 Feb 23 - 06:37

Objects

C/2022 U2

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Constellation

Auriga

Field centre

RA: 05h22m
Dec: +33°05'
Position angle: -0°34'

Field size

2°10' × 1°27'

Full filename

2022u2/2022u2_20230212_dbartlett.jpg

Target name

C/2022 U2

Title

Another Colorful Swing-by for Comet C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) and IC410, 2023-02-12 After passing the Flame nebula the night before (seehttps://astrob.in/04rb75/B/), 12th magnitude comet U2 ATLAS has just passed the emission cloud IC410 - the tadpoles. The comet is surprisingly large in envelope and it has "that" greenish color to it. This is a rather deep image with well over two and a half hours of integration time. I feel like I can see a faint dust tail extending at what position angle? (Sharp eyes or hallucinations) Full resolution of this image can be found on here on ASTROBIN Observational details: Backyard setup scope: C11 RASA D = 279mm; fl =618mm; F# 2.2 camera: asi 2600mcP exposure: 108 x90 sec Seeing: 4/5 Transparency: 9/10 Observer: DEBartlett Location: June Lake, California, USA Image Info (Not the closeup which is at the same scale): WCS transformation ....... Linear Projection origin ........ [1562.000012 1043.999993] px -> [RA: 5 22 15.179 Dec: +33 05 28.65] Resolution ............... 2.504 arcsec/px Rotation ................. -0.574 deg Observation start time ... 2023-02-13 06:00:32 UTC Observation end time ..... 2023-02-13 06:02:02 UTC Focal distance ........... 619.34 mm Pixel size ............... 7.52 um Field of view ............ 2d 10' 24.0" x 1d 27' 9.3" Image center ............. RA: 5 22 15.179 Dec: +33 05 28.65 Image bounds: top-left .............. RA: 5 27 26.946 Dec: +33 49 17.97

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Another Colorful Swing-by for Comet C/2022 U2 (ATLAS) and IC410, 2023-02-12 After passing the Flame nebula the night before (seehttps://astrob.in/04rb75/B/), 12th magnitude comet U2 ATLAS has just passed the emission cloud IC410 - the tadpoles. The comet is surprisingly large in envelope and it has "that" greenish color to it. This is a rather deep image with well over two and a half hours of integration time. I feel like I can see a faint dust tail extending at what position angle? (Sharp eyes or hallucinations) Full resolution of this image can be found on here on ASTROBIN Observational details: Backyard setup scope: C11 RASA D = 279mm; fl =618mm; F# 2.2 camera: asi 2600mcP exposure: 108 x90 sec Seeing: 4/5 Transparency: 9/10 Observer: DEBartlett Location: June Lake, California, USA Image Info (Not the closeup which is at the same scale): WCS transformation ....... Linear Projection origin ........ [1562.000012 1043.999993] px -> [RA: 5 22 15.179 Dec: +33 05 28.65] Resolution ............... 2.504 arcsec/px Rotation ................. -0.574 deg Observation start time ... 2023-02-13 06:00:32 UTC Observation end time ..... 2023-02-13 06:02:02 UTC Focal distance ........... 619.34 mm Pixel size ............... 7.52 um Field of view ............ 2d 10' 24.0" x 1d 27' 9.3" Image center ............. RA: 5 22 15.179 Dec: +33 05 28.65 Image bounds: top-left .............. RA: 5 27 26.946 Dec: +33 49 17.97
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