Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson (Feb.4, 2017)

[PepeChambo]

Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) imaged in February 4th, 2017 is located now to four months of reach its perihelion and with a brightness of 10.5 magnitude. Its dense tail of dust is 12 arcminutes long, while this image clearly shows around the head an outer gassy coma with green color of 5 arcminutes that corresponds to a sphere with 350.000 km. of diameter.

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Planewave 17" CDK 1940mm f/4.5 & FLI-PL6303E (L:3×300s Bin1+ RGB:1x60s Bin2) from Mayhill, New Mexico

Post: http://cometografia.es/2015v2-johnson-20170204/

[Davey-T]

Well caught Pepe, I still haven't managed to spot it in my light polluted sky.

Dave

[JimT]

I have been waiting the last couple of weeks to take a shot at it but no clear sky here so thanks for the looksee Pepe

Jim

[orion25]

Bravo! Beautiful image. Nice color and awesome tail 

Regards,

Reggie

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Lovely detail captured.