Observation by Martin Mobberley: I noticed on Guide 9.0 that 50P/Arend wa...

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Observer

Martin Mobberley

Observed

2015 Oct 09 - 12:58

Uploaded

2015 Oct 12 - 06:26

Objects

50P Arend

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50p/50p_20151009_1258_mpm.jpg

Target name

50P Arend

Title

I noticed on Guide 9.0 that 50P/Arend was very close to Neptune today, so took an image! Comet is arrowed at around 16th mag. Neptune dead centre. The faint trail of stars just above the comet (20th mag?) are real and appear on the STScI DSS images of the field, even though they look like hot pixels. Of course, Neptune is around 20x further from Earth than the comet.

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