File:74p-2010Jan25-12UT.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file ‎(1,027 × 944 pixels, file size: 158 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: 8 minute exposure of comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh with a 24" telescope. Comet 74P was 3.6 AU from the Sun and had come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on July 30th, 2009. Even as 74P recedes from the Sun, you can see signs of a cometary tail extending towards the upper right in this image taken at 2010-01-25 12:15 UT. The galaxy PGC 49413 is visible to the lower left of the comet.
Date
Source

This image was taken by Kevin Heider using LB-001 at LightBuckets in Rodeo, NM
Raw image from telescope
Use Wikisky and enter coordinates 13 53 57.72 -04 46 19.6 to locate this region of the sky.
Skyview (NASA Virtual Telescope) website / Skyview image (centered on where the comet is)

Aladin image of this region
Author Kevin Heider @ LightBuckets
Permission
(Reusing this file)
I, Kevin Heider, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following licenses:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Attribution: I, Kevin Heider
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
You may select the license of your choice.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

25 January 2010

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

16449b8d81ef854a36f3e9e0dd80e3a540c9bf12

determination method: SHA-1

data size

161,589 byte

height

944 pixel

width

1,027 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:58, 26 January 2010Thumbnail for version as of 18:58, 26 January 20101,027 × 944 (158 KB)Kheider== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description={{en|1=8 minute exposure of comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh with a 24" telescope. Comet 74P was 3.6 AU from the Su
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:74p-2010Jan25-12UT.jpg"