Object/Date: Comet 252P/LINEAR @ May 16,2016 Description: Comet 252P/LINEAR imaged on May 16 2016, since my last image taken one month ago the comet is now 8 times less brilliant, from magnitude 6 to 9, in the same way that its fuzzy greenish coma has decreased from a diameter of 45 to only 10 arcminutes. Tech data: GSO 8" f/3.8 & Canon EOS-100D (10 x 120 sec. at ISO-1600); from Vallés, Valencia (Spain) |
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