199P/Shoemaker 4 and 22P/Kopff
These are the observations of periodic comets. On August
13, the sky transparency was high and the stars were visible low in the
sky.
199P/Shoemaker 4 is moving south extremely low in the sky,
as far south as -41 degrees in declination. The 70cm telescope captured
this comet, but it was so low that the telescope was almost parallel to
the sea to the south.
22P/Kopff is bright enough to be visually observed. The coma
is not so large, but the tail appears to trail to the south in a photograph
taken by the 70cm telescope. For this photograph, much-loved hyper-sensitized
2415 film was brought back into life.
0199P 2009 08 13.54868 21 06 55.89 -41 06 16.2 17.0 N 372
0199P 2009 08 13.56142 21 06 55.41 -41 06 21.1 372
0022P 2009 08 13.64271 22 56 56.12 -12 16 17.8 13.9 N 372
0022P 2009 08 13.64896 22 56 55.98 -12 16 20.5 372