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Has anyone snapped Wirtanen yet?


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Although I saw it in binoculars before cloud moved in, it was simply not possible to snap it last night. Has anyone got any images of it sitting on a camera or laptop waiting to be processed?

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I have half an hour or so of subs of it from early Saturday morning parked on the obs pc.

Looking to get another run on it tonight

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I have a camera pointed at the general area but I'm wondering if it is too diffuse to capture. I bin scanned it as the intervalometer was strutting its stuff. I thought if I didn't capture it "of film" that the odd Geminid might pass through that area.

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Got it! It has a more pronounced centre than the visual view but still looks more like a globular cluster (scroll down if you don't see it at first):

 

CometWirtanenY18DecD13

 

 

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