By Hassan Dadashi Arani | 2025-04-09
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Comet SWAN25F
On 04/09/2025 05:20 am by Steven Bellavia | Website | Smithfield, VA USA
The Solar Wind Anisotropies/Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SWAN/SOHO) instrument is designed to observe the solar Lyman alpha photons (121.6 nm) backscattered by the neutral hydrogen atoms present in the interplanetary medium
An amateur astronomer in Australia, Michael Mattiazo, discovered the comet by studying images taken by SWAN/SOHO
The comet is temporarily named SWAN25F, but will likely be named C/2025 F2
Celestron C6 SCT
Starizona HyperStar v4
ZWO ASI 533MC Pro camera, cooled to -5C
SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount
80 x 30-second images, calibrated, aligned and integrated in PixInsight
