Izhevsk Sergey Alekseev filmed the brightest over the last few years the comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE). The pictures he posted on their pages in social networks.
– 12 shots for 15 seconds, if you do more, comet manages to fly to a nearby place, signed last photo Alekseev.
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a retrograde comet with a nearly parabolic orbit. It was first discovered on March 27, 2020, the space infrared telescope WISE. It was less than 20 degrees from the Sun from 11 June to 9 July this year. In July, the comet reached apparent magnitude of +1m, far exceeding the brightness of comet C/F8 2020 (SWAN). In addition, she had a second tail. The first – a bluish gas, and the second gold, consisting of dust.
July 23, 2020, the comet will approach the Earth to 103.5 million kilometers. Next time she’ll be back to the Sun in a few thousand years.
