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Eliot Herman
Mayhill NM
10/25/2021
08:30 pm

Equipment Details:

iTelescope 11

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop

Image Details:

New Outburst of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann. This Centaur located in a circular orbit between Jupiter and Saturn has another major outburst. The outburst at the end of September was fading after being the strongest observed in 40 years. On October 24th it had another significant outburst. This image shows the time course from the first strong outburst, through its gradually fading to this new outburst.