Imaging telescope or lens: Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Imaging camera: STL-11000M
Resolution: 1200x800
Dates: April 5, 2016
Frames: 4x240"
Integration: 0.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 26.68 days
Avg. Moon phase: 8.92%
Astrometry.net job: 1028560
RA center: 263.780 degrees
DEC center: -3.647 degrees
Pixel scale: 11.713 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -87.665 degrees
Field radius: 2.346 degrees
Locations: Mayhill - New Mexico (USA), Mayhill, New Mexico, United States
After approaching to 0.036 AU to Earth, the comet 252P/LINEAR has had an outburst that have triggered an oversized coma of 1 degree and has increased its brightness until magnitude 6, being observable at naked eye from dark skies. When was taken this image on April 5th, 2106 the comet passed close to M14, a globular cluster on the Milky Way in the constellation Ophiuchus.
Posted in my Blog Cometografia.es
