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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Длинный хвост кометы Леонарда http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1798905/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Jan Hattenbach
Explanation:
You couldn't see Comet LeonardБs
extremely long tail with a telescope Б it was just
too long.
You also couldn't see it with binoculars Б still too long.
Or with your eyes -- it was too dim.
Or from a city Б the sky was too bright.
But from a dark location with a low horizon Б
your camera could.
And still might -- if
the comet survives today's closest encounter with the Sun,
which occurs between the orbits of
Mercury and
Venus.
The featured picture was created from two deep and
wide-angle camera images taken from
La Palma in the
Canary Islands
of Spain late last month.
Afterwards, if it survives, what is left of
Comet Leonard's
nucleus will head out of
our Solar System, never to return.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.