Comet C/2002 F1 Utsunomiya |
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![]() Copyright © 2002 by Michael Jäger (Austria)
This photograph was obtained by Michael Jäger on 2002 April 30.82. It is a composite of two 1-minute exposures obtained with a 250/450 Schmidt camera and Kodak Ektachrome 100 film. He estimated the comet was then near magnitude 5.0. Discovery Syogo Utsunomiya (Minami Oguni-machi, Aso-gun, Kumamoto-ken, Japan) discovered this comet in morning twilight with 25x150 binoculars on 2002 March 18.44. He gave the magnitude as 10 and estimated the coma diameter as 1 arcmin. Utsunomiya confirmed the comet the next morning and described it as magnitude 10.0, with a diffuse, weakly condensed coma about 1.5 arcmin across .Historical Highlights
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![]() Copyright © 2002 by Michael Jäger (Austria)
This photograph was obtained by Michael Jäger on 2002 April 13.10. It is a composite of two 4-minute exposures obtained with a 250/450 Schmidt-Cassegrain and Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
![]() Copyright © 2002 by Alfredo Garcia, Jr. (Arizona)
This image was obtained by Alfredo Garcia, Jr. on 2002 May 3.13. It is a composite of two 30-second unguided exposures obtained with a 127-mm f/5 Orion Short Tube Refractor and an MX5C CCD camera. |