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Morning Comets Continue to Dazzle in New Images, Timelapses
Comet Lovejoy on November 2, 2013, as seen from Singapore. Credit and copyright: Justin Ng.
While many are anticipating seeing Comet ISON, there’s more in the sky these days than just one comet. There are actually four comets now in the skies in the mornings — in addition to ISON, there’s comets 2013 R1 Lovejoy, 2P/Encke and 2012 X1 LINEAR! Unfortunately, non of these are visible to the naked eye — yet anyway.
Here are some great recent images and video of these comet taken by amateur astrophotographers. Above is Comet Lovejoy, taken by Justin Ng from Singapore. “Comet Lovejoy will share the same part of the sky as Comet ISON this month and it presents a cool astrophotography opportunity for skywatchers and astronomers,” Justin told Universe Today via email. “This image is a result of stacking 9 images together and each image was captured using a 3 inch telescope at 5 minutes exposure time for about an hour before dawn.”
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Post tags: Astrophotos, Comet Encke, Comet ISON, Comet LINEAR, Comet Lovejoy, Comets
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