Hi All,

Attached is my image of C/2019Y4 ATLAS from last night, taken from my remote observatory in Spain. I experimented using the camera in low gain mode...but that seemed to create an even more messy image than usual!

The moon was very bright and some high thin cloud didn’t help, but I still managed to image the forward material mentioned by Denis. My image seems to show it at a slightly different angle to that in Denis’s image.

Peter

Peter Carson

Leigh on sea Essex

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Subject: [BAA Comets] C2019Y4 20200505_06

Hello all,

Attached is my image of C/2019Y4 taken tonight (20200505_06) at Tarbatness Highland Scotland in very bright moonlight.The comet's appearance is similar to last night's image, only the bright component B is showing. There are no other condensations visible in my image. The material forward of the comet in the sunward direction is still visible and is fairly well defined (not quite spike like). The nuclear magnitude as measured in Astrometrica with a 9 pixel radius is slightly brighter tonight at 14.8.as opposed to 15.1 last night

Denis Buczynski

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