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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

5 February 2021, 1008UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet C/2018 N2 (ASASSN) brightened to magnitude 11 when it reached perihelion in its orbit back in November 2019, it is slowly fading and will dim to magnitude 20 in 2023. In these images the comet is magnitude 15.6 and 467 million miles from Earth. It still has a nice coma around its nucleus.

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