Astrometry.net job: 1784257
RA center: 14h 14' 51"
DEC center: -3° 22' 44"
Pixel scale: 4.290 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.399 degrees
Field radius: 0.894 degrees
Resolution: 1200x900
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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