#CometWatch from #kepler
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/10/07/cometwatch-from-kepler
During the last month of #Rosetta's operations at #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it was no longer possible to observe the #comet with telescopes on Earth because it was too close to the Sun’s position in the sky and therefore not visible in the night-time. Fortunately, NASA’s Kepler space observatory stepped in, taking #Images of the comet every 30 minutes from 7 to 20 September, providing important context to #rosetta's in situ measurements. A world-class exoplanet hunter, Kepler is now in its second mission, called K2, which started on 30 May 2014. While still looking for exoplanets, it is now performing observations along the ecliptic and so observing a wealth of Solar System objects, from large bodies like Neptune and Pluto to smaller ones, like #Comets. For example, it took #images (...)