56P/Slaughter-Burnham

Comet 56P/Slaughter-Burnham

2016 Dec. 22.86 UT m1=15.3: Dia.=&0.4'… 0.20-m f/4 reflector + DSLR, ISO800… Taras Prystavski

(Lviv, Ukraine)

 

Delta=1.87 AU; r=2.78 AU; Sky Motion 0.30"/min in PA 239 deg

 

Comet 56P/Slaughter-Burnham 157 days after perihelion passage at a distance of 280 mln. km from Earth.

Comet have reached its maximum brightness in November, 2016 (~15 mag). Now it's rapidly fading as

moving away from Earth and Sun both.

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