Comet C/2008 Q3 Garradd
Example of comet observations.
Comet C/2008 Q3 Garradd was discovered on 27th of August 2008 by Gordon
Garradd
from Catalina Sky Survey through 0.5 m
Uppsala Schmidt telescope located on Siding Spring Observatory (New
South Wales, Australia).
"Pi of the sky" automatic trigger has discovered the comet passing
at pictures taken at the middle of June 2009. It was found by algorithm
dedicated to detection of the nova
stars.
Below there are some pictures taken by us until today, which shows path of
the comet through skies. Comet is in the middle of the picture unless it is
near a frame border and then it cannot be inside central square.
Below there are "Pi of the Sky" images 200x200 arcmin (click at the picture to
enlarge). All of them were taken during a morning scan and there are
an average of 3 frames.
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In the table there are time and coordinates for each picture:
| Some of our observations |
| HJD | Date | UT | α [h] | α [hh mm ss] | δ [°] | δ [° ′ ″] | Comment |
|---|
| 2454994.6310 | 2009.06.12 | 3:06:53 | 13.34845865 | 13 20 54 | -40.52762141 | -40 31 39 | |
| 2454995.6361 | 2009.06.13 | 3:11:10 | 13.28259594 | 13 16 57 | -38.95611938 | -38 57 22 | |
| 2454998.6455 | 2009.06.16 | 3:25:10 | 13.11495388 | 13 06 53.6 | -34.44944964 | -34 27 16 | |
| 2455002.6445 | 2009.06.20 | 3:24:35 | 12.94811501 | 12 56 52.1 | -29.03525689 | -29 02 22 | |
| 2455010.6483 | 2009.06.28 | 3:31:59 | 12.74037887 | 12 44 25.2 | -20.24423602 | -20 14 51 | |