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Photographer:

Pepe Chambó

Location of Photo:

Sierra Enguera, Valencia, Spain

Date/Time of photo:

2024 March 12, 19:41 UT

Equipment:

Samyang F2.0/135mm, Canon 6D

Description:

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 12, 2024, when it offered us a beautiful conjunction with the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) within a wide starry field about 15 degrees wide. The comet, with a brightness of magnitude 5.5, showed a bluish ionic tail of at least 6 degrees in length.

Website:

https://cometografia.es

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