Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hercules (Her)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Comet Garradd in mid November, Pepe Chambó
Comet Garradd in mid November
Powered byPixInsight

Comet Garradd in mid November

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Comet Garradd in mid November, Pepe Chambó
Comet Garradd in mid November
Powered byPixInsight

Comet Garradd in mid November

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Although it is moving away from Earth for the time, in your wide orbit the comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) is approaching progressively to Sun, this keeps a slow increasing brightnes placed around 7.5 magnitude, and may be observable through binoculars. Such as you can appreciate at this image, tenuous way, the comet shows a wide and short tail of dust with fan shape, and other tail of gas elongated and stretched.

More info into the Blog  C O M E T O G R A F I A(in Spanish)

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Comet Garradd in mid November, Pepe Chambó

In these public groups

Imaged with APT