Halley's multiple dust tail

Halley's multiple dust tail. This false-colour wide-field CCD Picture of Comet Halley was obtained with the ESO special camera sensitive to the 500-1100 nm spectral region. The exposure time was 45 seconds. This is the first picture to show clearly multiple tails of Comet Halley. The ion tails point towards the top of the picture and those to the right (north) are dust tails. Note also the structure in the north-east direction, that is towards the sun. (ESO Press Release eso8605; Colour)

Crédit:

ESO

À propos de l'image

Identification:eso8605a
Type:Observation
Date de publication:26 février 1986
Communiqués de presse en rapport:eso8605
Taille:1728 x 1389 px

À propos de l'objet

Nom:Comet Halley
Type:Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Comet : Tail : Dust
Catégorie:Solar System

Formats des images

Grand JPEG
640,3 Kio
JPEG taille écran
274,5 Kio

Couleurs & filtres

DomaineTélescope
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Exposure time: 45s