C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 20894)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Aug 13 02h57 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 11.3 Aperture radius used for m1 1.7 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.5 Aperture radius used for m2 6.0 " Coma diameter 3.4 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 4 r (dist/Sun) 1.493 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.464 AU Right ascension 04 12 47.0 h m s Declination +58 13 23 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson 407mm F/D 4.3 Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.29 Filter(s) None Camera Sony Alpha 7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36*24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240*2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 44 s Exposure details 4sec+20*2sec Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 5.5 Seeing 3 Air mass 1.3 Location Boulonville (28/78) Reference stars catalog GSC (HST) Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing alignement, somme, retrait gradient Observation submission date 2019 Aug 14 16h47m36s