The comet Lemmon on northern skies | Pepe Chambó

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Photographer:

Pepe Chambó

Location of Photo:

Mayhill, New Mexico (USA)

Date/Time of photo:

2013-05-21

Equipment:

Takahashi FSQ-106ED Refractor + SBIG ST-8300C (3×180 sec. at Bin 1x1)

Description:

The comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) after rivalize with comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on Southern Hemisphere sky and after surpass your perihelion, began to be observable from Northern Hemisphere during May 2013. In this image on day 21 of this month, in spite of the comet falled your brightness until 7 magnitude, still showed a long gas tail at least 1º long and a dust tail about 20' long leaving your gassy coma of turquoise color.

Website:

http://cometografia.es