{"id":76,"date":"2012-10-13T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T11:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-10-19T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:20:03","slug":"comet-hergerother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Comet Hergenrother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hergenrother20121012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-75\" title=\"Hergenrother20121012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Hergenrother20121012-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In October 2012 this comet suddenly brightened from\u00a0magnitude\u00a015 to magnitude 10 which is 100x brighter. Here it is in Pegasus in a single 2 minute exposure image taken at f3.3 with the 10&#8243; LX200 and the HX516 camera<\/p>\n<p>Here is a stack of 6x1minute images made with Deep Sky Stacker in comet mode<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CometHergenrother20121018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-94\" title=\"CometHergenrother20121018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CometHergenrother20121018-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comet Hergenrother on 18\/10\/2012 around 22:00 BST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Below a video of frames taken over about 15 minutes showing how the comet moves relative to the stars as it orbits the sun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9MfoGCrBME?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2012 this comet suddenly brightened from\u00a0magnitude\u00a015 to magnitude 10 which is 100x brighter. Here it is in Pegasus in a single 2 minute exposure image taken at f3.3 with the 10&#8243; LX200 and the HX516 camera Here is a stack of 6x1minute images made with Deep Sky Stacker in comet mode &nbsp; Below &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet Hergenrother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.masdingastronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}