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Credit & Copyright: Jens Hackmann
Explanation:
Lovejoy continues to be an impressive camera comet.
Pictured above,
Comet C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) was
imaged above the windmill in
Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire
in southern
France
with a six-second exposure.
In the foreground is a field of
lavender.
Comet Lovejoy should remain
available for
photo opportunities for northern observers during much of December and during much
of the night, although it will be fading as the month progresses and highest in the
sky before sunrise.
In person, the comet will be
best viewed with binoculars.
A giant dirty snowball,
Comet Lovejoy last visited the inner
Solar System about 7,000 years ago, around the time that humans developed the
wheel.
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- APOD: 2024 April 17 Á Total Eclipse and Comets
- APOD: 2024 April 8 Á The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons Brooks
- Comet Pons-Brooks at Night
- APOD: 2024 March 18 Á Comet Pons Brooks Swirling Coma
- Comet 12P/Pons Brooks in Northern Spring
- Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks
- The Snows of Churyumov Gerasimenko