SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Pepe Chambó
Location of Photo:
Valles, Valencia, Spain
Date/Time of photo:
2024 March 5, 19:22 UT
Equipment:
TS-Photon 8" N f/3.6, Atik 383L+
Description:
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on March 5, 2024 exhibits a highly developed and dynamic ion tail with several filaments and jets extending beyond the nearly 2 degrees in lenght in this image, amidst which a tail disconnection that occurred days earlier can be appreciated. The details within the greenish coma are particularly striking, where a jet-like structure can be seen spiraling out from the interior, wrapping around the nucleus indicating its rotation. The image is composed of a mosaic of two tiles in the four LRGB filters, while the comet descended to just 15° above the horizon.
