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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 February 24, 1214UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is now becoming visible in the early morning for the Northern Hemisphere, in fact, it is now the brightest comet that can be observed from the Northern Hemisphere. The comet was magnitude 10.7 on the morning of 2025 Feb 24 as observed from Tucson. The comet had a fan shaped 0.03 degree long tail pointing to the northwest of the comet coma. The comet coma was about 0.03 degrees wide in this image. The image has a field of view a little bigger than 1/2 x 1/2 degree.