Observation by Nick James: C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) fragments

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2020 Apr 19 - 20:04

Uploaded

2020 Apr 21 - 07:14

Objects

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)

Equipment

C11 Edge HD + FLI6303

Exposure

22x60s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

C/2019 (ATLAS)

Title

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) fragments

About this image

An image of the central part of this comet showing the double nucleus. Not much else downtail now. Compare with this Hubble image taken 13 hours later. You can see why Hubble cost many billions of dollars.

Files associated with this observation

2019y4_20200419_2104_ndj.jpg (841.7 kB)

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Jeremy Shears, Mr John William Hughes, Mr Leonard Entwisle, Gary Poyner, Nik Szymanek, Peter Mulligan, Nick Hewitt, Andy Wilson, Lyn Smith, Andrew Dumbleton, Peter Carson

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