Comets in conjunction

[PepeChambo]

Two new comets in approach to Sun casually concur into same field near Whirlpool Galaxy (M 51) in this image taken on December 1st, 2016. At the left bottom, the recently discovered C/2016 U1 (NEOWISE) shows a fuzzy and green coma due to its composing of ionized carbonic gas, while at upper right is the comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) with very different morphology, more dusty that gassy, shows a small and whitis coma from which departs a short tail of dust. Both comets could be observed using binoculars in the future: NEOWISE at the end of this month of December before immerse into light of dawn, of which perhaps will not come out because is possible the comet to disintegrate at approach to Sun; comet Johnson will reach its maximum brightness on next spring 2017.
 
Clic for enlarge:

Takahashi FSQ ED 106mm. f/5.0 & SBIG STL-11000M (L:3×180s bin1 + RGB:1x60s Bin2) remotely from Mayhill, New Mexico (USA)
 
Blog post: http://cometografia.es/2016u1-neowise-2015v2-johnson-20161201/

[D4N]

That's a really nice capture with not only two comets but a nice galaxy to boot.

And with only 12 minutes of data too!

[Davey-T]

Nicely captured Jose, found Johnson the other night but couldn't track down Neowise even though it looks bigger and brighter in your image.

Dave

[andrew63]

Another fine image Jose. Just had a look of Comet Nowise path -  it's moving very rapidly in the sky !

 

andrew

[andrew63]

Congratulations on your APOD image today.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

 

andrew

[PepeChambo]

Thanks to all