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Imaging telescopes or lenses: GSO Newton 8" f/4
Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT
Mounts: Meade LXD75
Software: DeepSkyStacker, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight LE
Accessories: Teleskop-Service Coma Corrector
Resolution: 1024x640
Dates: Oct. 7, 2011
Locations: Hoya Redonda - Valencia (Spain)
Frames: 2x20" ISO1600
Integration: 0.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 10.15 days
Avg. Moon phase: 77.73%
RA center: 10:46:23.509
DEC center: +07:30:55.867
Pixel scale: 4.32 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 179.51 degrees
Field width: 73.65 arcminutes
Field height: 46.06 arcminutes
The comet Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova approached to only 0.06 AU from Earth (30 times the distance to the Moon) on 2011 August 15, but it only could be observable from our latitude since last days of September, coinciding with its perihelium and its maximum brightness of 7 mag., at low altitude on the horizon before dawn. It developed a thin and long tail of blue gas during some days, and thereafter its brightness started to going down quickly.
More info into the Blog C O M E T O G R A F I A (in Spanish)
