Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake
(Colorado Mountain College)
Explanation:
To the unaided eye, they appeared as similar fuzzy patches.
But when a bright comet passed in front of a bright
star cluster last month,
binoculars and cameras were able to show off their marked differences in dramatic
fashion.
Pictured above, the bright comet, C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) shows many details of its coma and tail, while far in the distance
the Beehive open cluster,
M44,
shows many of its stars.
Comet Q4 has now faded to the edge of unaided visibility and can best be found
with a
sky map
and binoculars from the Northern Hemisphere well into June.
Star cluster
M44
will remain an impressive star cluster toward the constellation of Cancer indefinitely.
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