Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lyra (Lyr)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04, Dan Bartlett
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Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04

Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04, Dan Bartlett
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Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04

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Looking more like Pac-Man's ghost afraid of the fifth brightest star in our sky - Alpha Lyrae - or Vega.  An exceptional night of astrophotography where the final stack, straight from WBPP in PixInsight, showed the average star size to be 2.47FWHM, even with the presence of Vega.  Still, processing was a beast due to the ghosted blue reflection of Vega in random places through out the FOV.  Still, this oddball looking comet is still showing some central detail ( devil horns - ha!) after the last outburst from November 14th.  Interesting to see a few galaxies in the field best noticed in the 1st annotated inverted revision.  Will be interesting to keep an eye on this comet since we are months away from April's 21st perihelion and June 2nd's Earth's MOID.

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    Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04, Dan Bartlett
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Vega (a Lyr) is Visited by Ghost-like 9th Magnitude Comet 12P/ Pons-Brooks, 2023-12-04, Dan Bartlett

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