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LOVEJOY Comet Dramatic Split Tails - 1600 Iso ,f/4.8 at 40 minutes exposure using NIKON D3x + Telescope.
If You Can Find Orion, You Can Find Comet Lovejoy !
Beautiful diatomic carbon (C2) gas fluorescing in sunlight produces the coma's green color, the fainter bluish tail is tinted by emission from ionized carbon monoxide (CO+).
Lovejoy is a very long-period comet. On the way into the inner solar system, at this return, its path was indicating an orbital period of roughly 11,500 years. But the gravity of our solar system’s planets is thought to have altered the comet’s orbit a bit.

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Image size
3504x2336px 3.78 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 20D
Shutter Speed
302/1 second
Aperture
F/2.0
Focal Length
35 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Aug 7, 2010, 9:31:42 PM
Sensor Size
22mm
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Sign of the Green Comet After the passing of two thousand years At the height of irreverence Sodom and tears Will hurdle down sanctions befit for such crimes As mankind has wrought for the ending of times Shudders will pass from one hell to another One supernova to binary brother Passing the torch when the sign will be seen Look to the sky for a fiery green Up from the cosmos and off to one side Barreling forth cataclysmic its ride Heavenly emerald of cool viridescence Hummingbird harbinger sans iridescence There at the crossroads of magic and space The heralded comet shall light up your face Then hath the terminus come for mankind Who ruled his world but for the briefest of time Joseph John Racano