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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2026 March 25, 0247UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) has brightened a few magnitudes in the last several days as it now moves closer to the Sun and into the evening twilight. The comet was magnitude 8.8 with a coma 3.5 arc minutes wide and had a thin pencil tail about 1/4 degree long visible in these images taken in evening twilight 3.4 degrees above the horizon.