7P/Pons–Winnecke
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7P/Pons–Winnecke is a Jupiter-family comet roughly 5 km in diameter that takes six-years to orbit the Sun. The next perihelion passage is 25 August 2027 when the comet will have a solar elongation of
An illustration of Pons–Winnecke approaching the Earth in 1921.
Mariner 5
Hyakutake Color
Apparent magnitude
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Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star, astronomical object or other celestial objects like artificial satellites. Its value depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance, and
7P/Pons–Winnecke
…The last perihelion passage was 27 May 2021 when the comet had a solar elongation of 107 degrees at approximately apparent magnitude 11.< It passed 0.44 AU (66 million km) from Earth on 12 June 2021. Before that it came to perihelion on 30 January 2015 with a solar elongation of 24…
Asteroid 65 Cybele and two stars in the constellation Aquarius, with their magnitudes labeled
Image of 30 Doradus taken by ESO's VISTA. This nebula has a visual magnitude of 8.