Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: a new, deep image – 10 Aug. 2023
We observed comet 12P/Pons-Brooks under very good sky conditions, going quite deep and recording a faint structure in the coma. here we present our image.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: 10 Aug. 2023.
The image above comes from the median combination of 39, 180-second unfiltered exposures, plus some additional processing and were remotely taken with the Celestron C14+Paramount ME+SBIG ST8-XME robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy. Images were collected under good seeing conditions and the total of about 2 hours of exposure interestingly shows faint, radial rays in the East side of the coma. This comet showed a five mag. large outburst on 20 July.
In the upper right inset, a 15deg Larso-Sekanina rotational gradient was applied (the scale here was reduced to 50% of the original one).
Support The Virtual Telescope Project!
Support us! Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE image of potentially hazardous asteroid 2011 UL21, taken at the time of its fly-by and much more, specifically made for supporters like you!
(you can adjust the amount later)
