Comet C/2015 V2 (Johnson) on 21.03.2017 |
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Size: 1800 px | |||||||||||||||||||||||
© Velimir Popov & Emil Ivanov 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
C/2015 V2 (Johnson) was discovered on 3 November 2015 by Jess Johnson (Catalina Sky Survey), using a 0.68-meter Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. At the time of discovery the comet had an apparent magnitude of 17.1. Its incoming orbit had a Semimajor Axis of 59,200 AU, but after crossing its perihelion the orbit will become hyperbolic with an eccentricity of 1.0009, thus C/2015 V2 will leave the Solar System. This image shows the comet on the night of March 21st 2017 at 0:20 a.m. UT. |
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Charts and image details obtained from Astrometry.net | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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