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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

18 January 2021, 1023UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet C/2020 Y3 brightened to magnitude 18 when it reached perihelion this past December, 2020. In these images the comet is magnitude 18.0 and 189 million miles from Earth. It has a 0.006 degree long fan tail WSW of the comet coma.

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