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BAA Comet Section

Observer

dbartlett

Observed

2023 Sep 25 - 00:00

Uploaded

2023 Sep 30 - 06:15

Objects

2P Encke

Full filename

2p/2p_20230925_dbartlett.jpg

Target name

2P Encke

Title

At the time Comet 2P/ Encke was travelling as a foreground object nearing M36 it was a faint 12th magnitude comet. In this 92 x60 seconds of stacked subframes brought out some of the richness of the Auriga starfield. I'm looking forward to this comet brightening considerably as it approaches October's perihelion. ASTROBIN: https://astrob.in/2fxord/B/ Observational details: Backyard setup scope: C14 D = 356mm; fl =729mm; F# 2 camera: asi 2600mcP exposure: 92 x60 sec Seeing: 4/5 Transparency: 7/10 Observer: DEBartlett Location: June Lake, California, USA Image Details (all) Projection ............... Gnomonic Projection origin ........ [1543.252474 1022.887240] px -> [RA: 5 33 36.030 Dec: +33 52 09.26] Resolution ............... 2.128 arcsec/px Rotation ................. -2.651 deg Reference system ......... ICRS Observation start time ... 2023-08-25 10:34:20 UTC Observation end time ..... 2023-08-25 10:35:20 UTC Geodetic coordinates ..... 119 04 46 W 37 46 30 N 2357 m Focal distance ........... 728.92 mm Pixel size ............... 7.52 um Field of view ............ 1d 49' 29.0" x 1d 12' 33.8" Image center ............. RA: 5 33 36.041 Dec: +33 52 09.37 ex: +0.061188 px ey: +0.102689 px Image bounds: top-left .............. RA: 5 37 52.888 Dec: +34 30 35.30 ex: -0.133276 px ey: +0.004909 px top-right ............. RA: 5 29 03.059 Dec: +34 25 29.14 ex: +0.151547 px ey: -0.363625 px bottom-left ........... RA: 5 38 05.251 Dec: +33 18 12.04 ex: -0.199506 px ey: +0.014484 px bottom-right .......... RA: 5 29 22.980 Dec: +33 13 11.30 ex: +0.076694 px ey: +0.223843 px _._,_._,_