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Eliot Herman
Siding Springs Australia
07/30/2022
08:00 pm

Equipment Details:

T69 iTelescope

Post-processing Details:

Astropixel Processor and Photoshop 19 x 120 sec stacked

Image Details:

Comet 2017 K2 is already presenting a striking image months from its predicted maximum brightness. At the time of the image the comet was 277 million km from Earth. The image shows the comet embedded in interstellar gas providing variations of color to frame the comet. Hopefully the best is yet come with the comet.