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Photographer:
Mike Olason
Location of Photo:
Mountain, North Dakota
Date/Time of photo:
2025 October 14, 0121UT
Equipment:
50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera
Description:
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now getting higher above the northwest horizon after it gets dark and is visible with binoculars and small telescopes. The comet has a nice rich green 10' (0.17 degree) wide coma with a semicircle white area ahead of the bright white central region near the nucleus. The rayed tail fans out to the upper right of the coma in this image composed of 6x10s stacked images. On the evening of October 14 UT the comet was magnitude 5.6 and was barely visible to the naked eye from a very dark part of North Dakota where the Milky Way Galaxy looked like a band of bright white clouds stretching across the sky from the northeast to the southwest. The comet will get higher above the northwest horizon each night now after it gets dark and may brighten to magnitude 4.
