Comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS cruising through the Solar System
I would like to share with you the result of my latest watching comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). 78 minutes compressed to few seconds of a visitor from the Opik-Oort Cloud, that is, from the farthest reaches of the Solar System. At the time of recording, the comet was approximately 290 million km from Earth - it was crossing the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter against the backdrop of the constellation Ophiuchus. According to recent measurements, the cometary nucleus has a diameter of 18 km. The comet will be closest to the Sun in December 2022.
Telescope: Newton SkyWatcher 200P / 1000, Main camera: (OSC) ASI 294MC-Pro, sensor temperature: -10 degrees Celsius, gain: 110, Parallactic mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro SynScan GoTo, Guiding: ZWO 60/280 + Bresser Full HD Deep-Sky guider 1.25 ", GSO 2" coma corrector, filters: Astronomik IR-BLOCK 2 ". Software: SharpCap, PHD2, PixInsight, SonyVegas. Video composed of 26 uncalibrated frames, each exposed for 180 seconds Material recorded on June 26, 2022 in Gostynin, central Poland, sky: Bortle 5 - 6.
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