Comet NEOWISE Rotation Timelapse Sequence (clean version)
A sequence of eight images reveals the rotation of Comet NEOWISE using data from the international Gemini Observatory’s Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i’s Maunakea. The images were obtained on 1 August 2020 using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph over a period of of 1.5 hours. In this sequence, the set of eight images are looped nine times.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Drahus/P. Guzik/J. Pollard
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2021b |
Release date: | Aug. 24, 2020, 3 p.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2021 |
Duration: | 16 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
Name: | Comet NEOWISE |
Category: | Solar System |
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