Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Sculptor (Scl)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon), Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
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Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon), Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon)
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Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon) imaged on June 30, 2023, just when passed between Kappa<sup>1</sup> Sculptoris, really a binari system of two white giants both with magnitude of 6 and separeted by near only 1 arcsecond, and Kappa<sup>2</sup> Sculptoris, a solitary orange giant star at magnitude 5. The comet contrasts the group with its greenish coma at magnitude 10 and two faint tails: an ionic tail toward west (right) and a dust tail toward northeast (top left).

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Comet C/2021 T4 (Lemmon), Pepe Chambó