Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Animation, Josh Loum
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Animation
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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Animation

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Animation of the 8 frames stacked in this image.

Even at the large pixel scale at focal length 85mm, it's amazing how fast it moves in the only ~6 minutes these images represent! Guesstimating purely from these images at this relatively coarse image scale, it appears to have been traveling at about 1 arcsecond approximately every 9 seconds. (Double checking with Stellarium shows that it was more on the order of 1 arcsecond every 13 seconds.)

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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Animation, Josh Loum