Comet 252/P (LINEAR)
Taken by Marion Haligowski on March 26, 2016 @
Lancaster, PA, USA
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Date Taken: 2016:03:26 21:06:14
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Comet 252/P (LINEAR) is seen in the pre dawn sky on March 26, 2016. On March 21st, LINEAR made a historic close pass of Earth. This pass was the fifth closest approach of any comet to date. A bright waining gibbous moon in nearby Virgo made photography difficult this evening. The Ptolemy cluster and the M5 open cluster can be seen in the left of the photograph. This image was made of 10 fifteen second exposures with a Canon 70D and a Canon 100 mm f/2 lens @ f/4.5. (ISO 400). I have never seen a comet with such a large, diffuse coma to date. This object was certainly a challenge to photograph!
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/radicalretinoscopy/
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