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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 February 24, 1138UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet 13P/Olbers is now observable in the early morning from the Northern Hemisphere. The color image taken on 2025 February 24 shows the comet at magnitude 15.1 in a very dense star field. Comet 13P was magnitude 12.1 on images taken January 9 and has faded several magnitudes in the past 7 weeks.