A very intriguing comet
May 29, 2019
2 minutes
by David Seargent
On October 2, 2017, the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope at Haleakala, Hawai‘i, discovered a 19.9 magnitude comet. Nothing unusual about that these days as this telescope now finds the lion’s share of such objects and most of them do not become bright enough to draw the attention of visual observers using small telescopes. However, this comet — C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) —
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