comet
Taken by Charles Bell on December 29, 2017 @
Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
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Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze) on 2017-Dec-29 08:03:33 UTC showed a gently curved dust tail. The comet currently has very high sky motion as it approaches Earth on 2018 Jan-04. This required stacking many short exposures to get the detail in this image.
Stack 48 x 12 seconds
Sky Motion: 11.24"/min in PA 334.9°
Focal Length = 1821.5mm
Rotation = 0.05°
Pixel Size: 2.04" x 2.04",
Meade Telescope 0.3-m Schmidt-Cassegrain at f/6.3
CCD SBIG ST-8XME
R Band filter
Field of view 26.0' x 17.3'
North up, east left.
Comet located in constellation Cancer
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/cbellh47/
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