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While Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) is fading to barely naked-eye and binocular visibility (the comet has lost a full magnitude approximately every week since perihelion on March 9), astrophotographers are still able to track down the comet as it moves away from the Sun. This deep color exposure by
Chris Schur
in Arizona is still able to show surprising detail and Chris said via email that he was "surprised how beautifully colored the stars are in this part of the Milky Way." Chris's shot is a 25 minute exposure, and is an LRGB (Luminance, Red, Green and Blue -- is a photographic technique used in amateur astronomy for producing good quality color photographs by combining a high-quality black-and-white image with a color image).
See some more recent PANSTARRS images from around the world, below, plus an
awesome new timelapse
from TWAN (The World At Night) photographer P-M Hedén:
The Visitor - Comet PanStarrs from P-M Hedén on Vimeo.
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Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on April 23, 2013. Credit and copyright: Paul M. Hutchinson. [/caption]
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Comet PANSTARRS and star trails on April 21, 2013. Credit and copyright: David G. Strange. [/caption]
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Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS in false color, 'sigma combined and rotational gradient filter (inset) C8 @ f/2 85mins. exposure. April 19, 2013. Credit and copyright: David G. Strange.[/caption]
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Comet C.2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) on April 15, 2013. A 5 minute exposure with a Zeiss 80mm astrograph with DSLR camera. Credit and copyright: Chris Schur.[/caption]
This shot was taken on April 2 when Comet PANSTARRS was snuggling up in the sky with the Andromeda Galaxy, but this beautiful image is a recent addition to
Universe Today's Flickr page
. You can see more images of PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy
here
and
here
.
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13 frame stack of Comet PanSTARRS and the Andromedaa Galaxy on April 2, 2013 as seen over Leitrim, Ireland. Canon 200mm. Credit and copyright: Martin Campbell. [/caption]
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