Periodic Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova CCD Images

February 26, 2017
Color image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2017 Feb. 26 (2h23-2h30UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, CCD and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 60 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 3.75 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2017 by H. Mikuž, Črni Vrh Observatory.
February 19, 2017
Color image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2017 Feb. 19 (22h45-22h48UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, CCD and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 20 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 5.0 arc sec/pixel. Due to proximity to Earth, the comet motion was rather fast at about 8 arc sec/min. Copyright © 2017 by H. Mikuž, Črni Vrh Observatory.
February 16, 2017
Color image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2017 Feb. 16 (22h23-22h27UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, CCD and LBVR filters. Exposure time was 15 seconds in each filter. Image scale is 5.0 arc sec/pixel. Due to proximity to Earth, the comet motion was rather fast at about 13 arc sec/min. Copyright © 2017 by H. Mikuž, Črni Vrh Observatory.
False color wide-field image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2017 Feb. 16 (22h13-22h26UT) with 300mm, f/4 lens, CCD and R filter. Exposure time was 10x60s. Image scale is 6.2 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2017 by H. Mikuž, Črni Vrh Observatory.
February 15, 2017
False color wide-field image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2017 Feb. 15 (1h55-2h09UT) with 300mm, f/4 lens, CCD and R filter. Exposure time was 10x60s. Image scale is 6.2 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2017 by H. Mikuž, Črni Vrh Observatory.
October 5, 2011
False color image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2011 Oct. 5 (3h36-3h52UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, CCD and R filter. Exposure time was 7x40s. Image scale is 3.1 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2011 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.
October 3, 2011
False color image of periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušakova, obtained on 2011 Oct. 3 (3h48-3h55UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, CCD and R filter. Exposure time was 8x40s. Image scale is 3.0 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2011 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.


February 2, 1996

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This V-filter image was taken on 1996 Feb. 2 with the 20-cm, f/2 Baker-Schmidt camera and ST-6 CCD. Exposure time was 120s, starting at 4:49:40UT.

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