Imaging telescope or lens:GSO Newton 8" f/4
Resolution: 1200x900
Dates:May 2, 2017
Frames: 3x120"
Integration: 0.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 6.74 days
Avg. Moon phase: 43.14%
Astrometry.net job: 1610912
RA center: 273.702 degrees
DEC center: 38.520 degrees
Pixel scale: 4.285 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 179.340 degrees
Field radius: 0.893 degrees
Locations: Vallés - Valencia (Spain), Vallés, Valencia, Spain
Data source: Unknown
Comet 41P imaged on Mat 2nd 2017 three weeks after its perihelion, begun loss brightness, although in this image still shone around magnitude 7.5 showing a fuzzy coma with a diameter as 15 arcminutes wide around a sharp central condensation; also is visible a small tail as 8 arcminutes long toward southwest (to bottom right).
Posted in my Blog Cometografia.es
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