Nice Bright -far away- Comet C/2019 L3 ATLAS, Perihelion January 2022 (Dan Bartlett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lynx (Lyn) · Contains: Solar system body or event

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Nice Bright -far away- Comet C/2019 L3 ATLAS, Perihelion January 2022

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Nice Bright -far away- Comet C/2019 L3 ATLAS, Perihelion January 2022

95 x120 second lights were taken on Sept 14, 2021 when Comet C/2019 L3 ATLAS was quite far away from us at 3.95 AU. Its brightness was quite bright, estimated around mid 11th magnitude, yet perihelion and MOID (earth) will be early January of next year.

Perihelion distance will be way out there 3.6AU, well between the Orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The excitement , IMO, is that closest approach is January 6th 2021 and will close in by another ~1.5AU to 2.6AU. That's close enough to potentially image more details.

Image details:
WCS transformation ....... Linear
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [2612.071055 1712.011071] px -> [RA: 7 13 19.719 Dec: +44 28 05.98]
Resolution ............... 0.801 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. -0.394 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2021-09-14 12:32:41 UTC
Focal distance ........... 617.93 mm
Pixel size ............... 2.40 um
Field of view ............ 1d 9' 45.0" x 45' 43.0"
Image center ............. RA: 7 13 19.724 Dec: +44 28 05.99
Image bounds:
top-left .............. RA: 7 16 35.596 Dec: +44 51 01.38
top-right ............. RA: 7 10 02.093 Dec: +44 50 32.30
bottom-left ........... RA: 7 16 34.819 Dec: +44 05 18.65
bottom-right .......... RA: 7 10 06.419 Dec: +44 04 49.95

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Astrometry.net job	5049580
PixInsight job	MBUTE2JY4XYN3KMXGUGN3EGWEKK2XTRW
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RA (center)	07h13m19s.727
RA (top/left)	07h16m35s.668
RA (top/right)	07h10m02s.240
RA (bottom/right)	07h10m06s.430
RA (bottom/left)	07h16m34s.911

Dec (center)	+44°28′05″.84
Dec (top/left)	+44°51′01″.17
Dec (top/right)	+44°50′32″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	+44°04′49″.68
Dec (bottom/left)	+44°05′18″.37

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