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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2026 March 9, 1222UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refractor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Comet C/2026 B2 (Sun-Gao) appears to have had another outburst. It had reached magnitude 12.6 back on Feb 16 then faded to magnitude 14.2 on Feb 26 and after Feb 26 I could no longer see it with my 50mm f/5 Refractor on several attempts until March 9 when I found it at magnitude 13.6 with a very dispersed coma. Looking at common sense aperture diameter reports from COBs it appears that it started brightening again about March 5 when reported at magnitude 14.4 after having faded to magnitude 15+. Nothing pretty about these images, just raw data as it really looks.