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Gallery: Hartley 2

Image taken by Bob Traube


Fig 1:
 

Image Parameter Details
Image Date (UTC): 2010-10-09
Image Time (UTC): 03:30
Exposure: 19x120s, 20s intervals
Filter: ???
Field of View: ???
Observing Site: Cave Mountain Observatory Retreat
Petersfield, WV
Observing Equipment: TEC-140 f/7
Canon 40d (Hutech Mod)
Digital Processing: Processed with Images Plus Digital Development. Cropped from original 3906x2592 px full frame to 1258x839px subframes and combined into animated gif using myspacegens.com.
Comments: Very dark skies but it was somewhat windy and the seeing was terrible that night as you can from the pulsating stars.
Astrometry.net blind astrometry solver places the comet at:
(RA, Dec) center: (37.8656459559, 56.44241765) degrees
(RA, Dec) center: (02h 31' 27.755", +56° 26' 32.704")

Table 1: Data about image.
 

Updated: 30-Jul-2013