Comet NEAT (Q4) Over Indian Cove

Créditos & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics)

Comet NEAT (Q4) Over Indian Cove
Pulsa en la imagen para agrandarla.

Comet NEAT (Q4) was quite photogenic earlier this month.

Although the head and part of the tails of Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) were visible to the unaided eye, the best views of the colorful tail were revealed only later by cameras able to expose for long periods.

A human eye can accumulate light for up to 1/10th of a second, as opposed to the above camera image, which used an exposure of nine minutes on May 8.

Visible is a long blue ion tail, a blue coma surrounding the comet´s nucleus, and a shorter but brighter sunlight reflecting dust tail.

Q4 is dropping more from easy visibility each day as it recedes from both the Earth and the Sun.

Another separate naked-eye comet, Comet LINEAR (T7), should remain bright into June.

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