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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

7 June 2021, 0355 UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

In these images Comet 22P/Kopff is magnitude 19.1 with a very short tail at position angle 339 degrees from the coma and is 274 million miles from the Earth. The comet will be at perihelion in it's 6.39 year orbit in March 2022 when it will be 143 million miles from the Sun and may brighten to magnitude 11. The comet will make it's close approach to Earth in September 2022 at 128 million miles.