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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

7 June 2021, 0602 UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

In these images Comet C/2020 F2 (ATLAS) was magnitude 16.9, had an 18 arc second wide coma and was 771 million miles from Earth. The comet will be at perihelion in it's orbit in July 2022 when it will be 816 million miles from the Sun. The comet will make it's close approach to Earth in April 2022 at 729 million miles. The comet will stay around magnitude 17 for the next 2 years.