ATLAS
C/2019 Y4 ATLAS, before it fell apart
ATLAS was a Kreutz sungrazer comet. These comets are fragments of a large comet that broke up centuries ago. Their orbits take them extremely close to the Sun, and because of that they often fall apart. Thousands of this family have been discovered so far, but most of them didn’t survive their meeting with the Sun.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Telescope | Skywatcher 200/1000 ('07 version) |
| Filter | |
| Coma corrector | Vixen R200SS |
| Field flattener | - |
| Camera | Canon 400D |
| Resolution | 1259 x 708 (cropped & scaled) |
| Light frames | 10 (60s @ ISO 400), 10m total |
| Flat frames | - |
| Darkflat frames | - |
| Dark frames | 10 |
| Bias frames | 12 |
| Location | Bolton, UK |
| Local time | 2020-04-06 23:56:19 - 00:09:04 |
| Field of View | |
| Image Center |
ffmpeg -r 5 -i %%d.png -start_number 1 -vcodec libwebp -vsync 0 -loop 0 -b:v 30000k -filter:v "crop=800:800:1282:1356" atlas.webp
Stars aligned (but not Atlas):
Atlas aligned (but not the stars):
