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Comet - 67-P-Churyuminov-Gerasimenko, Mike Dobres

Comet - 67-P-Churyuminov-Gerasimenko

Comet - 67-P-Churyuminov-Gerasimenko, Mike Dobres

Comet - 67-P-Churyuminov-Gerasimenko

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December 9th, 2021, Valencia, Spain. 67P-Churyumnov-Gerasimenko zipping across the sky.  I was all set up to capture Comet Leonard again, and realized that this lump of rock was in the vicinity. This is a 152 x 4 seconds (10 minutes) Live Stack in Sharpcap.  The stack was then processed in Startools to produce the attached. Not quite as much detail as I captured with Leonard, but you still see a focus of heat/light in the coma. (Captured with my 14 ¨Dobson plus ZWOASI 294 MC pro).

There´s an interesting story behind this one. It was the  first comet to be  landed upon by robots from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft, carrying the Philae lander, rendezvoused with this comet in August 2014 and escorted it on its journey to the inner solar system and back out again.  More here: In Depth | 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko – NASA Solar System Exploration

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Comet - 67-P-Churyuminov-Gerasimenko, Mike Dobres