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Comet 65P/Gunn is at Opposition (3.646 AU) on the 29th January 2015.

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Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r    Elong.  Phase   Mag
2015 01 28    08 59 14.8 +28 08 34   3.6479  4.6191   169.3     2.3  17.8
2015 01 29    08 58 33.0 +28 11 54   3.6462  4.6178   169.4     2.3  17.8
2015 01 30    08 57 51.0 +28 15 10   3.6448  4.6164   169.4     2.3  17.8
2015 01 31    08 57 09.0 +28 18 23   3.6437  4.6151   169.2     2.3  17.8
2015 02 01    08 56 26.8 +28 21 31   3.6430  4.6138   169.0     2.3  17.8
2015 02 02    08 55 44.6 +28 24 36   3.6425  4.6125   168.6     2.4  17.8
2015 02 03    08 55 02.4 +28 27 37   3.6424  4.6112   168.1     2.5  17.8
2015 02 04    08 54 20.2 +28 30 33   3.6426  4.6099   167.5     2.7  17.8
2015 02 05    08 53 38.0 +28 33 25   3.6431  4.6085   166.9     2.8  17.8
2015 02 06    08 52 55.9 +28 36 12   3.6439  4.6072   166.1     2.9  17.8
2015 02 07    08 52 13.9 +28 38 55   3.6450  4.6059   165.4     3.1  17.8
2015 02 08    08 51 32.1 +28 41 33   3.6464  4.6045   164.5     3.3  17.8
2015 02 09    08 50 50.4 +28 44 06   3.6481  4.6032   163.7     3.5  17.8
2015 02 10    08 50 09.0 +28 46 34   3.6502  4.6019   162.8     3.6  17.8


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Comet 65P/Gunn is at Opposition (3.916 AU) on the 28th December 2013 



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Ephemeris

Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   Mag
2013 12 27    06 31 33.5 +29 20 07   3.9163  4.8949   173.7     1.3  18.3
2013 12 28    06 30 49.7 +29 21 30   3.9159  4.8949   173.9     1.2  18.3
2013 12 29    06 30 05.9 +29 22 50   3.9159  4.8948   173.9     1.2  18.3
2013 12 30    06 29 22.0 +29 24 08   3.9162  4.8947   173.6     1.3  18.3
2013 12 31    06 28 38.2 +29 25 23   3.9169  4.8947   173.2     1.4  18.3


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Comet 65P/Gunn makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.602 AU) on the 21st July, 2010.


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Comet 65/P Gun's tail is seen in red trailing off to the right.


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Comet 65/P Gunn

This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) features comet 65/P Gunn. Comets are balls of dust and ice left over from the formation of the Solar System. As a comet approaches the Sun, it is heated and releases gas and dust from its surface, which is blown back by the solar wind into a long, spectacular tail. Comet 65/P Gunn's tail is seen here in red trailing off to the right of the comet's nucleus (near the center of the image).

Comet 65/P Gunn was discovered by James Gunn, a professor at Princeton University, N.J., in 1970. Gunn is the project scientist for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, another important survey of the sky done in visible light. WISE observed the comet on April 24, 2010 in the contellation Capricornus (just one month after the comet's closest approach to the Sun). This is a single-frame observation, covering an area of 1.5 by 1.5 full moons (0.76 by 0.76 degrees).

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Comet 65P/Gunn is at perihelion (2.440 AU) on the 2nd March, 2010.

Ephemeris
Date    TT    R. A. (2000) Decl.     Delta      r     Elong.  Phase   mag
2010 02 28    19 00.46   -25 09.3    2.861    2.440    55.5    19.5  13.1 
2010 03 05    19 10.10   -25 10.6    2.810    2.440    58.4    20.2  13.1 
2010 03 10    19 19.57   -25 10.8    2.758    2.441    61.2    20.9  13.0 
2010 03 15    19 28.83   -25 10.0    2.705    2.442    64.2    21.5  13.0 
2010 03 20    19 37.87   -25 08.5    2.651    2.443    67.1    22.1  12.9 
2010 03 25    19 46.66   -25 06.5    2.597    2.444    70.1    22.6  12.9 
2010 03 30    19 55.20   -25 04.3    2.542    2.446    73.1    23.0  12.9



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