Comet C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang
This comet was discovered on February
1. 2002 by Kaoru Ikeya of Japan and Daqing Zhang of China.
According to orbital calculations, this
comet may not be new to our skies. The comet shares a similar orbit with one
named C/1661 C1, which appeared 341 years ago in 1661, and it is likely that
the comets are one and the same. If so, this would be the first long-period
comet (a long-period comet has a period of over 200 years) to be identified
as making a subsequent trip in to the sun.
March
16. 2002 - Image is taken at 18:26 UTC,
refractor Celestron 102mm f/5 and 6x20 sec. exp. on Pixcel 237 CCD.
Field of view is 32x25 arc minutes, North is right. |
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| March 29. 2002 - 18:54 UT,
C8 at f3,3, Pixcel 237 CCD, 3x15 sec. |
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March 30. 2002 - Image taken on March 30. 2002 at 19:02 UTC
when he pass by beta Andromedae. On image is also visible galaxy NGC
404 (mag 10.2).
This LRGB image is taken through a telephoto
lens 200mm/f:3,5 on Pixcel 237 CCD. |
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