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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

5 Februrary 2021, 1111UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) may brighten to magnitude 6 when it reaches perihelion in December 2022. In these images the comet is magnitude 15.2 and is still 696 million miles from Earth. It has a nice coma around its nucleus.

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