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Comet 332P (Jan. 27, 2016)
This image of Comet 332P was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on Jan. 27, 2016. CreditsNASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2016
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2016-35-3787-image
This image of Comet 332P was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on Jan. 27, 2016.
Credits
NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami |
| Object Description | Short-period comet |
| Distance | The position of the comet changes as it and Earth travel on their orbits through the solar system. The comet was approximately 0.68 AU (67 million miles or 100 million kilometers) from Earth at the time of these observations. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Data were provided through HST proposal : D. Jewitt (UCLA), M. Mutchler (STScI), H. Weaver (JHU/APL), J. Agarwal (MPI), M.-T. Hui (UCLA), M. Ishiguro (Seoul National Univ.), J. Li (UCLA), and J. Kleyna, K. Meech, R. Wainscoat, and R. Weryk (Univ. Hawaii). |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | January 26, 27, 28, 2016; Exposure Time: 100 minutes total exposure |
| Filters | F350LP 350nm (long pass) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | Several images of Comet 332P were made by HST's WFC3/UVIS instrument on three consecutive days with a single filter, F350LP. The exposures from each day were combined into a single image. Color was added to the combined grayscale images using a color mapping. |
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