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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 July 26, 1010UT

Equipment:

91mm f/4.9 Refractor and ASI533MM Camera

Description:

Comet 48P/Johnson on 2025 July 26 showed an elliptical coma 1' long by 0.5' wide with a tail 2' long at a position angle of 248 degrees from the comet's coma. The comet was magnitude 15.7. A rather strange appearance for the comet but probably explained by the geometry of the comet as seen from Earth on this date, TBD.