Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson

February 7, 2017 at 9:29 pm

JosÃ© J. ChambÃ³

Mayhill, New Mexico

Planewave 17″ CDK 1940mm f/4.5 & FLI-PL6303E

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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