Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -, Pkline
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -
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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -

C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -, Pkline
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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet with an inbound hyperbolic orbit, discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Saturn,  then it was 16 AU (2.4 billion km) from the Sun.

This is the first comet that I ever imaged.  Thank you to the community for teaching me.

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) -, Pkline