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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Denver, Colorado

Date/Time of photo:

15 April 2018, 1107UT

Equipment:

11" SCT f/6.4 and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

Comet 37P/Forbes was magnitude 14.9 and 145 million miles from Earth in this image. It has a tail to the upper right of the coma in this image. The comet is low in the southeast during morning twilight. 37P will be at perihelion on May 4 on its 6.43 year orbit when it will be 149 million miles from the Sun. 37P may reach magnitude 13.5 this summer and will pass 90 million miles from the Earth August 18.

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