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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

2025 August 27, 0323UT

Equipment:

50mm f/5 Refarctor and IMX462 camera

Description:

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is very slowly brightening and was magnitude 16.0 in these images with a coma only about 0.3' wide. Some have suggested it is an alien spacecraft, but it acts like it is going to be a very boring interstellar comet passing through our Solar System hopefully getting a little brighter and more active as it passes by the Sun in October before it moves out of our Solar System into other areas of our Milky Way Galaxy in the next few years.