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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 Sept 10, 0300UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is very slowly brightening and is getting low in the evening sky when it gets dark. In this image the comet was magnitude 11.5 with a tail 2.5' (0.04 degrees) long at a position angle of 103 degrees from the 1.4' wide comet coma. The comet coma is a light green color.