Observation by Peter Carson: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks at higher resoluti...

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Peter Carson

Observer

Peter Carson

Observed

2023 Jul 23 - 00:48

Uploaded

2023 Jul 23 - 10:41

Objects

12P Pons-Brooks

Equipment

315mm CDK reflector
Paramount GEM
QHY600 CMOS camera
Unguided and unfiltered

Exposure

Stack of 20 x 60 second exposures

Location

Remote observatory at Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, Spain.

Target name

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

Title

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks at higher resolution

About this image

The seeing in Spain at my remote observatory site last night was good last, so I took this unbinned image of 12P. (0.31” x0.31” per pixel)

The coma detail is developing fast. Its total integrated magnitude remains at 11.6, identical to my previous observation on 2023-07-20.93.

More details on the image.

Files associated with this observation

12P_20230723_0048_PCarson.jpg (155.8 kB)

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