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English: 6 minute exposure of comet 118P/Shoemaker-Levy with a 24" telescope. Comet 118P was 2.0 AU from the Sun with perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) having occurred on January 2nd, 2010. You can just make out signs of a cometary tail in this image taken 2010-03-05 03:00 UT. The star just to the left of the comet is magnitude 18.
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This image was taken by Kevin Heider using LB-001 at LightBuckets in Rodeo, NM
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Use Wikisky and enter coordinates 06 09 02.19 +17 16 21.8 to locate this region of the sky.
Skyview (NASA Virtual Telescope) website / Skyview image (centered on where the comet is)

Aladin image of this region
Author Kevin Heider @ LightBuckets
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