Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)
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Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS
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Description

Object/Date:

C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) @ August 13,2019 04:23 UT

Description:

Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) imaged on August 13, 2019. With a approximate visual magnitude 13.5 shows a coma still very small with angular size of 0.5 arcminute and a short dust tail with lenght 1.5 arcminutes. This comet could be observable through binoculars on May 2020 with a brightness around magnitude 7.

Acquisition details:

Telescope Planewave 20" CDK f/6.8

Camera FLI PL09000

Exposure 7.5 min. (L=5x50 bin2 + RGB=1x50 bin3)

From Slooh Teide Observatory, Canary Islands (Spain)

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Credits:

Martin Vd Dussen and José J. Chambó (obtaining)

José J. Chambó (processing)

Slooh (resources)

More info at Cometografia.es

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Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS, Pepe Chambó

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