Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF), Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Powered byPixInsight
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF), Pepe Chambó
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Powered byPixInsight

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

After two months of being unobservable due to its conjunction with the Sun, the comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) reappears in the pre-dawn sky. In this image, taken on June 30, 2023, the comet has a brightness close to magnitude 10 and shows a coma surrounded by a greenish gaseous halo. It also has a dust tail pointing north (up) and a very faint ion tail toward west (right), both measuring about 20 arcminutes in length.

Comments

Revisions

  • Final
    Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF), Pepe Chambó
    Original
  • Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF), Pepe Chambó
    B

B

Title: Science

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF), Pepe Chambó