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Eliot Herman
Mayhill NM
10/30/2021
04:30 am

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iTelescope T19

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Photoshop

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Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) is predicted to put on a nice show in a little more than a month. At present it is still faint at about mag 11 and on October 30 it had a very close conjunction with Galaxy NGC 3897 mag 11 in Ursa Major.

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