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Photographer:

Pepe Chambó

Location of Photo:

Farm Hakos, Namibia

Date/Time of photo:

2022 July 15, 17:58 UT

Equipment:

ASA H8 Hyperbolic f/3, QHY600M

Description:

Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) on July 15, 2022, during its closest approach to Earth to a distance of 1.81 AU, coinciding with its expected celestial conjunction with the globular cluster M 10 located in the constellation Ophiuchus. A gaseous green coma surrounds the comet that also projects a long dust tail more than one degree long, and a very faint ionic tail that is directed just towards the cluster.

Website:

https://cometografia.es

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