Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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The comet Lemmon on northern skies, Pepe Chambó
The comet Lemmon on northern skies
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The comet Lemmon on northern skies

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The comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) after rivalize with comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on Southern Hemisphere sky and after surpass your perihelion, began to be observable from Northern Hemisphere during May 2013. In this image on day 21 of this month, in spite of the comet falled your brightness until 7 magnitude, still showed a long gas tail at least 1º long and a dust tail about 20' long leaving your gassy coma of turquoise color.

Full story in the Blog  Cometografia.es

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The comet Lemmon on northern skies, Pepe Chambó

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