Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1024
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Comet C/2018 N2 ASASSN, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2018 N2 ASASSN
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Comet C/2018 N2 ASASSN, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2018 N2 ASASSN
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Object/Date:

C/2018 N2 (ASASSN) @ July 12,2019 04:11 UT

Description:

Comet C/2018 N2 (ASASSN) was discovered a year ago and will reach perihelion next month of November, but will not go much inside the Solar System and will not shine more higher than magnitude 11. In this image taken on July 12, 2019 the comet is at magnitude 13, have not very gassy appearance but is already showing a nice dust tail. The brightest star is at magnitude 7 highlighting also in upper part the spiral galaxy NGC 1024, the bigest, although at least fifty small galaxies can be seen in this field with only 37 square arcminutes.

Acquisition details:

Telescope Planewave 20" CDK f/6.8

Camera FLI PL09000

Exposure 12.5 min. (L=9x50s bin2 + RGB=2x50s bin3)

From Slooh Teide Observatory, Canary Islands (Spain)

Processed with Maxim DL and PixInsight

Credits:

Martin VD and Nirmal Paul (obtaining)

José J. Chambó (processing)

Slooh (resources)

More info at Cometografia.es

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Comet C/2018 N2 ASASSN, Pepe Chambó

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