Comet 46P/Wirtanen close to perihel
Taken by V. Mette on December 12, 2018 @ iTelescope T14 - New Mexico Skies, Mayhill, USA
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  Camera Used: Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) STL-11000M
Exposure Time: 1200/1
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: Unavailable
Date Taken: 2018:12:12 08:52:55
 
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Comet Wirtanen actually shows a 80 arcmin. wide coma getting very dim in the outskirts. There is no structured tail visible, even in a long time exposure guided on the comets nucleus, like this one. Remote-telescope - iTelescope T14 Takahashi FSQ-106 ED Frame size: 4 x 2.6 deg. (11 MPix. sensor) L-channel @ 2x binning You may discover a full dataset in the EXIF-header
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