Observation by Mazin Younis: 12P crossing Cygnus region

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Mazin Younis

Observer

Mazin Younis

Observed

2023 Dec 31 - 20:00

Uploaded

2024 Jan 01 - 12:41

Objects

12P Pons-Brooks

Equipment

Skywatcher Quattro Newtonian f/4
ASI 2600MC

Exposure

10 x 120s

Location

Personal remote telescope - Morocco

Title

12P crossing Cygnus region

About this image

My last photo for 2023. Comet 12P is now entering the rich star field of Cygnus and will in a few days pass very close to the Crescent Nebula.

You can actually see a faint galaxy very close to the comet. For a Hi-Res photo click HERE.

Files associated with this observation

12P_20min_final.jpg (1.9 MB)

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Steve Knight, Miguel Araújo, Jeremy Shears, Dominic Ford

Comments

Nick James, 2024 Jan 03 - 18:40 UTC

That's a really nice widefield image showing how busy the background starfield is at the moment. I have just written up a note on this comet for the Feb Journal and if you are interested in contributing magnitude data to the Comet Section please let me know.

Mazin Younis, 2024 Jan 05 - 03:37 UTC

Thanks Nick. I am new to astrometry, have just used ASTAP which gave me magnitude 10.2. Do you have other suggestions for measuring comet mag.?

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