Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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A faint visitor to the Solar System, Rob Johnson
A faint visitor to the Solar System
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A faint visitor to the Solar System

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A faint visitor to the Solar System, Rob Johnson
A faint visitor to the Solar System
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A faint visitor to the Solar System

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Description

Comet 29P/Schwassmann Wachmann taken during a test run of my auto focus equipment - MyFocuserPro V2 by Robert Brown.

I had built the electronics module over the past few weeks and this was the first opportunity to test under clear skies using CCDCiel. I noticed 29P on the chart and thought why not! The hardware & software worked perfectly after some adjustments. The FWHM is ~2.5 in this image though the seeing at the time was poor.

The comet is between 13th and 15th mag depending on which source you take.

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