C/2002 O4 (Hoenig)
the comet on Seiichi Yoshida's Homepage, some more images, animation of Otmar Nickel
Homepage of Sebastian Hönig
2002-08-02 by Bernhard Häusler and Ralf Mündlein, Germany limit ~19 mag
1 min. exposure,
2002-08-02 UT 23:30, 14" RC
f-10 + CCD ST10XME,
Observatory Mündlein, Lindelbach, Germany
movie.wmv 30 minutes in reality cut down to 2.5 seconds (108KB)
Specification: Histogramm parabel
2002-08-02 by Bernhard Häusler and Ralf Mündlein, Germany
1 min. exposure,
2002-08-02 UT 23:30, 14" RC
f-10 + CCD ST10XME,
Observatory M�ndlein, Lindelbach, Germany
Histogram specification: parabel shown in the inlay
Position of the comet at August, 03 2002, Sun distance 1.35 AU
At the beginning of 2009
the comet's distance from the Sun is 18.38 AU, this is almost the Sun distance
of the planet Uranus.
C/2002 O4 (Hoenig) will leave the inner part of the solar system in a couple of
years and will later immerse in the
Oort cloud for ever.