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March 19, 2016
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False color R filter image of periodic comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS), obtained on 2016 Mar. 19 (19h28-19h33UT) in
moonlight conditions with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, programmed to track the comet.
Comet was on the way to fly-by Earth on Mar. 22 at a distance of 3.4 million kilometers,
moving at about 24 arc sec/min. Comet is a dot in the image center, whithout a trace of any comet activity
(coma, tail). Image scale is 1.86 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2016 by J. Skvarč, Črni Vrh Observatory.
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March 18, 2016
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False color unfiltered image of periodic comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS), obtained on 2016 Mar. 18 (19h04-19h08UT) in
moonlight conditions with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope. The image is stack of 12x10-seconds exposures, aligned in
direction of comet motion. Comet was on the way to fly-by Earth on Mar. 22 at a distance of 3.4 million kilometers,
moving at about 18 arc sec/min. Comet is a dot in the image center whithout a trace of any comet activity
(coma, tail). Image scale is 1.86 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2016 by H. Mikuz, Črni Vrh Observatory.
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March 17, 2016
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False color unfiltered image of periodic comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS), obtained on 2016 Mar. 17 (19h50-19h55UT) in
moonlight conditions with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope. The image is stack of 12x15-seconds exposures, aligned in
direction of comet motion. Comet was on the way to fly-by Earth on Mar. 22 at a distance of 3.4 million kilometers,
moving at about 13 arc sec/min. It is a dot in the image center and does not show any comet activity (coma, tail).
Image scale is 1.86 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2016 by H. Mikuz, Črni Vrh Observatory.
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