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Photographer:
Mike Olason
Location of Photo:
Tucson, Arizona
Date/Time of photo:
2025 January 16, 0114UT
Equipment:
50mm f/3.5 Refractor and ASI178MC camera
Description:
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was a little higher above the horizon on the evening of January 15 MST which allowed these images to be collected in a small blue patch of the twilight sky before the comet sank into the orange twilight glow. This is almost what the comet looked like in a pair of 8x21 binoculars with a bright starlike coma and a tail now 0.5 degrees long. The comet seemed brighter this evening than last evening, although astronomers making magnitude estimates say the comet was about magnitude -1.5 this evening compared to about -2.5 last evening. Probably looked brighter this evening due to the fact that last evening the comet was observed in a rich orange twilight glow whereas this evening the comet was observed in a clear blue sky above that orange twilight glow.
