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Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE
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Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE

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C/2020 F3 NEOWISE @ July 11,2020 03:19 UT

Description:

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) imaged on July 11, 2020 from the Altos de Salomón at 1,000 meters altitude in the inland Valencia using a telephoto lens. With a brightness of near 1.5 magnitude and observable to the naked eye, the comet displays up to three tails more than ten degrees long and of different types: a wide and curved dust tail in white, a straight and narrow ionic tail in blue, and a sodium tail that can be seen in red alongside the first degrees of the ionic tail.

Credits:

José J. Chambó (www.cometografia.es)

Data and link to image:

https://cometografia.es/2020f3-20200711/

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Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, Pepe Chambó

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