Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto Close Approach to Earth
Taken by Mike Olason on November 27, 2018 @
Denver, Colorado
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This is an image of Comet C/2018 V1 Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto on November 27 when it made its close approach to Earth, 62 million miles from Earth moving through Earths night sky at 0.2 degrees per hour. The comet was moving between the Sun (39 million miles from the Sun) and Earth a little above the planets orbital plane. So rather than getting to see all those nice images of a bright green comet you get to see this image of a comet that is only 3 degrees above eastern horizon just before sunrise. Due to the bright morning twilight the images were taken through a green filter. The bright streaked star just to the right of the comet is actually a double star system, the stars being about magnitudes 7 and 8.5 . The comet will reappear in the evening twilight December 1 in Denvers skies. The comet will reach perihelion in its orbit December 3 when it will be 36 million miles from the Sun.
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