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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

25 November 2020, 0831UT

Equipment:

11" SCT and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet P/2020 U1 (Lemmon) is the recovered Comet P/2013 TL117 (Lemmon). It has joined the Periodic Comet list as 405P/Lemmon. Comet 405P/Lemmon fragmented in November, the brighter magnitude 17.5 fragment is above the dimmer fuzzy fragment which is not easy to see in this gif, an earlier image in this gallery showed this better. Comet Lemmon was 46 million miles from Earth. The Gif is 6 images each 120 seconds long collected from 0831-0843UT with an 11" SCT f/6.4 and STF-8300M CCD Camera. The FOV is 15'x15' and 1.24"/pixel. Comet Lemmon will reach perihelion in its 6.86 year orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24.

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