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Photographer:

Pepe Chambó

Location of Photo:

Farm Hakos, Namibia

Date/Time of photo:

2024 June 26, 17:33 UT

Equipment:

Takahashi FSQ106, Moravian C3-61000

Description:

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks imaged on June 26, 2024, moving away while passing over the background of the Milky Way in the constellation Puppis. With a brightness of magnitude 7.5 and still observable with binoculars from the southern hemisphere, it shows its ion tail with two jets pointing towards the bright blue star f Puppis of magnitude 4.5, and its dust tail in the opposite direction.

Website:

https://cometografia.es