Photographer:
Mike Olason
Location of Photo:
Tucson, Arizona
Date/Time of photo:
2024 April 25, 0315UT
Equipment:
50mm f/3.5 Refractor and ST-402ME CCD camera
Description:
Comet 13P/Olbers is brightening nicely and is now magnitude 8.4 low in the western skies when it gets dark. Unfortunately, just like Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, 13P will also be low in the western evening skies when at its best in June and July. A strange coincidence for these 2 comets who both have not been near Earth for the past 70 years.