By Ron Andersen | 2023-07-04
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On 07/07/2023 10:55 pm by Eliot Herman| Utah Desert Observatory
Comet 2023 E1 (Atlas) a dusty Halley-family comet is at about peak brightness from the Earth perspective. Although only mag 9.2 it is a nice telescopic object against the star background as shown left which is 10 x 90 sec stacked on stars. In much longer exposures shown right 33x90 sec stacked on the comet nucleus a faint ion tail is visible with the stars as streaks due to tracking the comet nucleus.
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