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Community photo entitled  by Eliot Herman on 12/19/2021 at Tucson AZ

On 12/19/2021 06:30 pm by Eliot Herman | Website | Tucson AZ

Comet Leonard is actively changing every day. As the comet appeared in the dusk sky on December 16 it manifested an outburst to mag 3, it then faded to mag 5 by December 18th and then it brightened again to mag 3 on December 19th. The current brighter Comet Leonard is complicated by forward scattering as well as an outburst. See CometOBServation database for discussion (<a href="https://cobs.si/show?id=679" rel="noreferrer nofollow">cobs.si/show?id=679</a>).

Vixen VSD asrograph and Nikon Z7II mounted on a Vixen SXP mount

35 x 4 sec stacked with AstroPixelProcessor and the stack processed with Photoshop.