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Eliot Herman
Mayhill NM
11/12/2021
02:00 am

Equipment Details:

iTelescope T2, a 180 mm refractor

Post-processing Details:

Photoshop, stack of 3 x 120 sec images.

Image Details:

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that was the target of the ESA Rosetta probe made its closest pass to Earth, 61 million km on November 12, 2021. This image was captured 6 h after the closest pass.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/famous-comet-67p-c-g-closest-nov-2021-until-2214/