Comet Hyakutake develops two tails

Eso_eso9614b_1024

eso_eso9614b February 21st, 1996

Credit: ESO

The present photo is the first to show the turn-on of the ion tail (this is the technical term for this event). It is a reproduction of a 15-min CCD exposure obtained by ESO-astronomer Ferdinando Patat on Feb. 16.35 UT with the Danish 1.54-m telescope and the DFOSC multimode instrument (2k x 2k pix CCD) at the ESO La Silla Observatory. An R-filtre was used. The frame was image-processed at the ESO office in Santiago de Chile by another ESO-astronomer, Stefano Benetti, and then transferred to ESO Garching. The field measures 10.4 x 10.4 arcmin; the scale is 0.39 arcsec/pix; North is up and East is to the left.

Provider: European Southern Observatory

Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9614b/

Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Comet Hyakutake
Subject - Solar System
Interplanetary Body > Comet > Tail

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor ESO-Danish-1.54m (DFOSC) Optical (R) -
Eso_eso9614b_1280
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ID
eso9614b
Subject Category
A.2.2.3  
Subject Name
Comet Hyakutake
Credits
ESO
Release Date
1996-02-21T00:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso9614b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
N/A
Facility
Danish 1.54-metre telescope
Instrument
DFOSC
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Optical
Bandpass
R
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
900
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
530.0, 531.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
European Southern Observatory
URL
http://www.eso.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
European Southern Observatory
Publisher ID
eso
Resource ID
eso9614b
Metadata Date
2023-10-11T09:27:19.664517
Metadata Version
1.1
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