Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  NGC 5506  ·  NGC 5507
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Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson
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Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson, Pepe Chambó
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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.

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Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson, Pepe Chambó

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