Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson (Jun.24,2017)

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Photographer:

José J. Chambó

Location of Photo:

Valencia, Spain

Date/Time of photo:

Jun 24, 2017

Equipment:

GSO 8" f/3.8 & Atik 383L+

Description:

Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) photographed on June 24, 2017. In this image the comet was going away from Sun and Earth but still kept with a high brightness of 7,5 magnitude and its morphology: a coma 15' diameter, dust tail until north edge of the photo and very faint ionic tail barely visible toward souteast (to down-left). Some small galaxies appears on this field in Virgo constellation, highlighting NGC 5506 and NGC 5507 circa upper right corner.

Website:

http://cometografia.es