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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Denver Colorado

Date/Time of photo:

02 March 2017, 0916 UT

Equipment:

11" SC Telescope and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Magnitude 18 Comet 118P Shoemaker-Levy passing magnitude 12 Barred Galaxy NGC 4643. NGC 4643 looks like Saturn and it's rings when the contrast/brightness are adjusted as shown in the inset. The other inset attempts to show the faint comet better by stacking 3 images.

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