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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:GSO Newton 8" f/4
Imaging camera:Atik 383L+
Resolution: 1200x900
Dates:June 24, 2017
Integration: 0.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 0.45 days
Avg. Moon phase: 0.23%
Astrometry.net job: 1784257
RA center: 213.713 degrees
DEC center: -3.379 degrees
Pixel scale: 4.290 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.399 degrees
Field radius: 0.894 degrees
Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) photographed on June 24, 2017. In this image the comet was going away from Sun and Earth but still kept with a high brightness of 7,5 magnitude and its morphology: a coma 15' diameter, dust tail until north edge of the photo and very faint ionic tail barely visible toward souteast (to down-left). Some small galaxies appears on this field in Virgo constellation, highlighting NGC 5506 and NGC 5507 circa upper right corner.
Posted in my Blog Cometografia.es
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