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Imaging telescopes or lenses: Meade ETX-70
Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT
Mounts: Meade LXD75
Software: Iris, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight LE
Resolution: 1024x640
Dates: April 10, 2010
Locations: Hoya Redonda - Valencia (Spain)
Frames: 8x90" ISO1600
Integration: 0.2 hours
Darks: ~9
Flats: ~10
Bias: ~13
Avg. Moon age: 25.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 18.53%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Mean SQM: 20.00
RA center: 19:53:10.538
DEC center: +37:34:18.740
Pixel scale: 4.73 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 92.70 degrees
Field width: 80.65 arcminutes
Field height: 50.55 arcminutes
This comet discovered on May 29, 2009 by Robert McNaught on images obtained through australian telescope Siding Spring, reached a magnitude of 8,2 on April 2010 when I took this image from the Hoya Redonda hamlet. Inside to constellation of Swan, immersed between a lot of stars into full of Milky Way, was easily observable even with binoculars due to your intense emerald colour.
More info into the Blog C O M E T O G R A F I A (in Spanish)
