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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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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS