Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  10 Sco)  ·  10 ome02 Sco  ·  13.12  ·  14 Sco)  ·  14 nu. Sco  ·  144 Vibilia  ·  45 Lib  ·  45 lam Lib  ·  47 Lib  ·  7 Sco)  ·  7 del Sco  ·  8 Sco A)  ·  8 Sco B  ·  8 bet01 Sco  ·  8 bet02 Sco  ·  9 Sco)  ·  9 ome01 Sco  ·  Akrab (β1 Sco  ·  B40  ·  B41  ·  Dschubba  ·  Graffias  ·  HD141007  ·  HD141088  ·  HD141089  ·  HD141225  ·  HD141250  ·  HD141292  ·  HD141359  ·  HD141381  ·  And 275 more.
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Comet C/2017 K2 & Blue Horsehead Nebula in Scorpius, Ahmed Waddah
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Comet C/2017 K2 & Blue Horsehead Nebula in Scorpius

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Comet C/2017 K2 & Blue Horsehead Nebula in Scorpius, Ahmed Waddah
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Comet C/2017 K2 & Blue Horsehead Nebula in Scorpius

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C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet  discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Saturn. This was my first attempt at a comet. I had missed out on Comet NEOWISE and Comet Leonard and thought had to try it out! The comet was passing by IC 4592 - Blue Horsehead Nebula and the star  Acrab in Scorpius. It appears tiny in my field of view and would have been better looking with a longer focal length that I currently don't have but might work out something in the near future to revisit this comet! At least I got to image it! 

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