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Observer: Antonio Jose Cidadao
Location: Oeiras, Portugal
Date: March 18, 1996 01:38 UT
Notes: Comet 1996B2; 3 images of 30 sec. each in "track-and-accumulate" mode
(tracking was performed on the comet nucleus).
Original image was obtained with a 135mm (f/1.8) telephoto lens
and a SBIG ST6 CCD camera, piggy-back mounted on a 10" LX200
linear processing of the original image
hazy skies; clouds
CCD field is 3.5 x 2.75 degrees.
Comet tail was about 2.5 degrees long
Member of A.P.A.A. (Associacao Portuguesa de Astronomos Amadores)
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Camera: SBIG ST6
Filter wheel (CFW6-A): no
Filters: none
Exposure: 90 sec.
Date: 03/18/96 (beginning at 01h 38min UT)
Site: Oeiras, Portugal ("roof-top" observatory)
Image Proc. Software: CCDOPS; WinMiPS; PhotoShop
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Antonio Jose Cidadao
Rua D. Antonio Luis de Menezes, No9, 3A, phone: +351-1-4412192
S. Juliao da Barra, Oeiras,
2780 Oeiras
PORTUGAL e-mail: a.cidadao@telepac.pt
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