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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Tucson, Arizona

Date/Time of photo:

3 March 2021, 0230UT

Equipment:

66mm Refractor and ASI178MC Camera

Description:

Comet SWAN21D is a new comet that is about magnitude 10 and currently is just above the western horizon as it gets dark. This image was taken at an altitude of 6 degrees at the end of twilight, it is composed of 10 images each only 15 seconds long. The comet is at perihelion in its orbit on March 4 and may brighten a little more as it makes its close approach to Earth later this month at 149 million miles, in this image the comet was 155 million miles from Earth.

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