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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Denver Colorado

Date/Time of photo:

2016/11/06 0955UT

Equipment:

11" SC Telescope and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Magnitude 20.3 comet 227P Catalina-Linear is surrounded by 5 asteroids all between magnitudes 18.9 to 19.9. All 6 objects are basically moving in the same direction through the field of stars. The upper right inset attempts to show the comet a little better and the lower right inset is a single image showing how faint the comet really is among the stars.

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