Comet C/2013 X1 PANSTARRS
Taken by José J. Chambó on June 12, 2016 @
Siding Spring, NSW (Australia)
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Comet C/2013 X1 (PANSTARRS) imaged on June 12 2016, only 10 days before its maximum approach to Earth with a brightness near magnitude 6.5 is observable through binoculars. In this wide field image highlights a greenish coma with an appearent diameter as big as the Moon, from its departs toward upper left a dust trail (type III) with more than a degree long, also can be viewed a long and narrow ionic tail very faint towards right. As novelty aso can be observed the begin of its classical dust tail (type II) projected only a few arcminutes towards upper right. The brishtest star of the field is Iota Piscis Austrini with magnitude 4, and also can be perceived near the down right corner a small and faint interstellar cloud.
Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm. f/5.0 & SBIG STL-11000M (L:3×180s bin1 + RGB:1x60s Bin2)
Photographer's website:
http://cometografia.es
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