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Photographer:

José J. Chambó

Location of Photo:

Mayhill, New Mexico

Date/Time of photo:

Feb 4, 2017 @ 11:31 UT

Equipment:

Planewave 17" CDK 1940mm f/4.5 & FLI-PL6303E

Description:

Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) imaged in February 4th, 2017 is located now to four months of reach its perihelion and with a brightness of 10.5 magnitude. Its dense tail of dust is 12 arcminutes long, while this image clearly shows around the head an outer gassy coma with green color of 5 arcminutes that corresponds to a sphere with 350.000 km.

Website:

http://cometografia.es

Comments


Image of McComas

McComas

February 9, 2017 at 8:25 am

Very nice photos. Is any of your work on AstroBin?

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