Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Capricornus (Cap)
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Comet 45P toward perihelion, Pepe Chambó
Comet 45P toward perihelion
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Comet 45P toward perihelion, Pepe Chambó
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Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova imaged on December 23, 2016 in your way toward perihelion, few days after begining to develop a long ionic tail with several degrees long which exits from image field toward East. Although the comet is only at 8 degrees of altitude from horizon, doing hard the photography, can be seen that really is a twin tail departing from the greenish coma of comet, which shining near magnitude 8 being observable with binoculars.

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Comet 45P toward perihelion, Pepe Chambó

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