Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  IC 353  ·  Maia nebula  ·  Menkar (αCet)  ·  Merope nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  Part of the constellation Cetus (Cet)  ·  Part of the constellation Taurus (Tau)  ·  The star 5Tau  ·  The star Atlas (27Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17Tau)  ·  The star Menkab  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (19Tau)  ·  The star δAri  ·  The star ηTau  ·  The star ξTau  ·  The star οTau
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Comet 46P/Wirtanen and Pleiades, Kurt Zeppetello
Comet 46P/Wirtanen and Pleiades
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Comet 46P/Wirtanen and Pleiades

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On the left is the Comet 46P/Wirtanen and on the right is Pleiades - my favorite cluster captured with my Canon T3i with a 50 mm lens. I may try to do this again tonight when they are closer for our vantage point. Ideally it would be great to get this on 12/16 with a 65 mm telescope or 200 mm lens. I have neither and it supposed to be cloudy here but I am sure other people are already on this. I could not see it just looking up but I did manage to see it with my binoculars where it appeared as a large dim diffuse ball. (30 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 1600).

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Comet 46P/Wirtanen and Pleiades, Kurt Zeppetello

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