Photo of the Day - June 10, 2013
Damian Peach from Selsey, England
Comet PANSTARRS - Comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4) remains a great target for astroimagers nearly three months after its perihelion date of March 10, 2013. This image shows both that both the wide dust tail and the straighter, much longer, ion tail are both active. (4-inch Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor, SBIG STL-11000M CCD camera, LRGB image with four 3-minute luminance exposures stacked with one 2-minute exposure through the R, G, and B filters, taken June 6, 2013, at 5h49m UT)
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