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Leo Triplet and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, Thomas Richter
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Leo Triplet and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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Leo Triplet and 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

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My location was on a hill . It was very windy there.

I parked my car in front of the telecope, to reduce wind shocks...

The user Boski told me the Picture also contains the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Thanks !

(The weak spot. Over the bright star, almost at the image edge.)

Object description (wikipedia.org) :

The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (abbreviated as 67P or 67P/C-G, and written in Cyrillic as комета Чурюмова — Герасименко) is a Jupiter-family comet, originally from the Kuiper belt, with a current orbital period of 6.45 years, a rotation period of approximately 12.4 hours and a maximum velocity of 135,000 km/h (38 km/s; 84,000 mph). Churyumov–Gerasimenko is approximately 4.3 by 4.1 km (2.7 by 2.5 mi) at its longest and widest dimensions. It was first observed on photographic plates in 1969 by Soviet astronomers Klim Ivanovych Churyumov and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko, after whom it is named. It came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 13 August 2015.

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