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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 April 18, 1142UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) continues to fade slowly, on the morning of 2025 April 18 UT the comet was magnitude G=9.8 as calculated from 5x20 second images thru a green filter in an aperture diameter of 3'. The comet coma was 2.5' wide and the comet had a fan tail 2' long at a position angle of 309 degrees from the comet coma. There is a lot of speculation about the comet disintegrating, time will tell.