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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2026 January 12, 0157UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2025 T1 (ATLAS) is fading very slowly as it moves away from the Sun and Earth. In these images the comet was 195 million miles from the Earth shining at magnitude 10.7 as the comet now moves closer to the Sun's evening twilight glare as observed from the Earth. By the end of the month the comet will be lost in the brightness of evening twilight. In these images the comet was 6 degrees above the evening horizon as it got dark, a couple satellites passed through the image which was a stack of 33x10 second images.