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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

19 December 2020, 0600UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet C/2020 X2 brightened to magnitude 18 when it reached perihelion in its orbit this past November 2020. In these images the comet was magnitude 18.1 and 272 million miles from Earth. It had a very short tail west of the coma.

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