Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Minor (UMi)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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The comet Panstarrs under Polaris, Pepe Chambó
The comet Panstarrs under Polaris
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The comet Panstarrs under Polaris

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The comet Panstarrs under Polaris

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May 27, 2013. Concurring with the approaching of the comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS to Polaris (at upper center), Earth crossed the comet orbital plane. This perspective allowed to observe a long and inusual tail formed by dust particles which were left behind on this plane. In the image it can see a faint normal tail of dust of nearly 1º long toward right, and toward left, a long anti-tail of more than 6º passing near open cluster NGC 188. I have inserted a Moon image at same scale of photo as reference.

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The comet Panstarrs under Polaris, Pepe Chambó

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