New Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN)
Taken by Ernesto Guido & Marco Rocchetto & Adriano Valvasori on April 11, 2020 @
remotely from Australia
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Stacking of 3 unfiltered exposures, 30 seconds each, obtained remotely on 2020, April 11.4 from X02 (Telescope Live, Chile) through a 0.6-m f/6.5 astrograph + CCD, shows that this object is a comet with a compact coma about 5' in diameter and a tail 6' long in PA 220. Total magnitude 8.4.
Stacking of 3 unfiltered exposures, 120 seconds each, obtained remotely on 2020, April 11.7 from Q56 (Telescope Live, Australia) through a 0.1-m f/3.6 astrograph + CCD, shows that this object is a comet with a compact coma about 8' in diameter and a tail 25' long in PA 220.
Photographer's website:
https://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-comet-c2020-f8-swan.html
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