Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)
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Comet C/2017 T1 Heinze, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2017 T1 Heinze
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Comet C/2017 T1 Heinze, Pepe Chambó
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Comet C/2017 T1 (Heinze) photographed on December 15th 2017 through the telescope IAC-80 from Teide Observatory. In this image taken two months a half after be discovered and still with magnitude 13, already shows a curved dust tail. This small comet is fairly possible that disintegrate during its approaching to Sun on next February.

The high resolution of this image, stacked on comet to compensate its high speed, allows observing in detail inside of small coma, which has a diameter only 15 arcseconds.

Posted in my Blog Cometografia.es

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Comet C/2017 T1 Heinze, Pepe Chambó

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