Comet 41P near Earth

[PepeChambo]

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak imaged on March 25th 2017, five days before its maximum approaching to Earth at a distance of 0.14 AU. The greenish and very diffuse coma had extended until a diameter of 20 arcminutes, shining around magnitude 7.5.

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GSO 8" f/4.0 & Atik 383L+ (L:3×90s Bin1 + RGB:1x30s Bin2) from Vallés, Valencia (Spain)

Post: http://cometografia.es/41p-tuttle-giacobini-kresak-20170325/

[AKB]

6 minutes ago, PepeChambo said:

imaged on May 25th 2017

...um, March 25th ?

[Davey-T]

Another lovely comet capture Jose.

Dave

[PepeChambo]

22 minutes ago, AKB said:

...um, March 25th ?

Oops, changed