comet candidate
Taken by Jingyuan Zhao on January 12, 2025 @
Hubei, China
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This is comet candidate X85042, which was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it hasn't yet been assigned a comet number by the Minor Planet Center (MPC).
This image is from my follow-up observations, taken remotely with the SPIRIT 6 telescope at ICRAR's Mardella Observatory (MPC Code: E29, more information about the observatory can be found here https://www.icrar.org/outreach-education/spirit/about-spirit/ ).
Details: 1.0-m f/6 Corrected Dall-Kirkham + CCD, Clear filter, 58×60s exposure.
Photographer's website:
https://www.icrar.org/outreach-education/spirit/about-spirit/
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