Distant Comet C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski)
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Comet C/2012 Q1 (LEMMON) taken 2012 Sep 02.01UT 2 images showing movement in 23 minutes. Each frame is a 16 minute exposure with 0.40-m Schmidt-Cass. telescope & CCD Original scale 2.14"/pixel, enlarged x4, field size 3.5x3.5 arcmin, North up (c) P. Birtwhistle 2012, Great Shefford Observatory (J95) |
Comet C/2012 Q1 (Kowalski) was discovered by Richard Kowalski using the 1.5-m Reflector on Mt Lemmon as a 19th magnitude object in Pegasus on 28 August 2012, 3 days before full moon. He described it as having a faint round coma approximately 20" in diameter (about double the diameter visible in the animation above)...........
http://peter-j95.blogspot.com/2012/09/distant-comet-c2012-q1-lemmon.html
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50673338/comet-c2012-q1-kowalski/?page=1&sort=
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K12/K12R08.html
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi#top