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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2024 November 5, 0226UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) continues to fade as it moves away from the Sun and Earth, on the evening of November 4 (Nov 5 UT) the comet was magnitude 7.0 and still showed a mostly dusty colored coma and tail as the comet moves over the millions of background stars that make of the central part of our Milky Way Galaxy.