British Astronomical Association

Supporting amateur astronomers since 1890


Gallery

Observers

Objects

Sky map

Histogram

FAQs

Search

Observation by Jose Chambo: Object/Date: 174P/Echeclus @ Dec.15,201...

Uploaded by

BAA Comet Section

Observer

Jose Chambo

Observed

2017 Dec 15 - 00:00

Uploaded

2017 Dec 28 - 17:01

Objects

174P Echeclus (60558)

Planetarium overlay









Constellation

Aries

Field centre

RA: 02h37m
Dec: +11°21'
Position angle: -0°18'

Field size

0°10' × 0°10'

Full filename

174p/174p_20171215_jchambo.jpg

Target name

174P Echeclus (60558)

Title

Object/Date: 174P/Echeclus @ Dec.15,2017 01:07 UT Description: Comet 174P/Echeclus photographed on December 15th 2017, during its last outburst. Discovered in 2000 was classified as an asteroid Centaur type circulating between orbits of Uranus and Jupiter, but years later it showed cometary activity with outbursts in 2006, 2011, 2016 and the present in 2017. Besides of brightness increase from 17.5 to 13.5 magnitude the most remarkable has been the increase in coma size from 10 to 40 arcseconds. Thanks to resolution of Telescope IAC-80 in this image can be seen the internal structure of coma, wich shows jets departing from nucleus and a dark shape toward South. IAC-80, Teide Observatory, Canary Islands Paula Sola & José J. Chambó

About this image
Object/Date: 174P/Echeclus @ Dec.15,2017 01:07 UT Description: Comet 174P/Echeclus photographed on December 15th 2017, during its last outburst. Discovered in 2000 was classified as an asteroid Centaur type circulating between orbits of Uranus and Jupiter, but years later it showed cometary activity with outbursts in 2006, 2011, 2016 and the present in 2017. Besides of brightness increase from 17.5 to 13.5 magnitude the most remarkable has been the increase in coma size from 10 to 40 arcseconds. Thanks to resolution of Telescope IAC-80 in this image can be seen the internal structure of coma, wich shows jets departing from nucleus and a dark shape toward South. IAC-80, Teide Observatory, Canary Islands Paula Sola & José J. Chambó
Files associated with this observation
Like this image
Copyright of all images and other observations submitted to the BAA remains with the owner of the work. Reproduction of work by third parties is expressly forbidden without the consent of the copyright holder. By submitting images to this online gallery, you grant the BAA permission to reproduce them in any of our publications.

© British Astronomical Association 2024

Registered charity no. 210769
Registered company no. 117572

For more information including contact details, click here.

Our Terms of Use are here.

Our Privacy Policy is here.

The BAA image gallery was designed and
built by Dominic Ford.

Image gallery software © Dominic Ford 2020–2024