Comet Swan also known as C 2006/M4 SWAN was captured on 2006-10-25 by Zdenek Bardon from Czech Republic using a 106/f5 refractor telescope and a ST-2000XM/CFW-8A camera with 1x600 seconds exposure. Two days before this image, the comet had an important outburst in brightness increasing its visual magnitude up to 4.5.

by Zdenek Bardon on 2009-06-22 15:22:09 [Original Size] - [Next Image] - [Author's gallery]