C/2018 W2 (Africano) (Record n° 20945)
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2019 Aug 30 03h26 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 10.9 Aperture radius used for m1 2.5 ' Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.4 Aperture radius used for m2 6 " Coma diameter 5 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 5 r (dist/Sun) 1.458 AU d (dist/Earth) 1.027 AU Right ascension 03 24 39.2 h m s Declination +55 42 57 ° ' " Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument Dobson T407mm 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 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Sensor temperature 9 °C Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson sur Table equatoriale JMI Motorization Yes Autoguide No Exposure total time 104 s Exposure details 6x3+12x3+25x2s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 6 Seeing 4 Moon phase 180 ° Air mass 1.0 Location Boulonville (28) Reference stars catalog GSC (HST) Used softwares IRIS Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2 "/pix Image processing alignement somme retrait gradient Observation submission date 2019 Sep 01 19h37m38s