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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 January 19, 0127UT

Equipment:

50mm f/3.5 Refractor and ASI178MC camera

Description:

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was a lot harder to observe on the evening of 2025 January 18 MST in a hazy bright orange twilight sky. The image was taken with the comet only 0.6 degrees above the Tortolita Mountains. The comet had a tail 0.4 degrees long and a bright starlike coma.