[BAA Comets] Brightest outburst of Comet 29P this year (R=13.1)!

Nick James ndj at nickdjames.com
Fri Jul 29 19:32:28 BST 2016


Richard,

Here's the raw FITS file. It's a 5x60s stack. This one is not stacked on 
the comet's motion.

Nick.

On 29/07/2016 14:59, Richard Miles wrote:
> Thanks Nick for spending a few of your iTelescope points on this target.
> I shall have to use some of mine but I will save these for later when
> fewer observers are engaged in the monitoring task.
>
> Can you send me the FITS and I'll process it with Astrometrica too? - It
> would be useful to standardise on the config file for photometry with
> this particular scope.
>
> Taa,
> Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick James" <ndj at nickdjames.com>
> To: "BAA Comets discussion list" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Brightest outburst of Comet 29P this year
> (R=13.1)!
>
>
>> Richard,
>>
>> I've just managed to get an image of 29P using the big iTelescope T24
>> scope in California. I need to rush off to work now but a quick
>> reduction using UCAC-4 and a 20 arcsec aperture gives R=13.3. I'll do
>> a proper reduction tonight.
>>
>> The raw image is here:
>>
>> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2016/29p_noofs_0000.fit.jpg
>>
>> Nick.
>>
>>
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