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Eliot Herman
Mayhill, New Mexico
11/16/2021

Equipment Details:

iTelescope T19 30 min Lum and 15 min H-alpha from 300 sec images processed with Astro Pixel Processor

Image Details:

Comet Atlas had a close conjunction with Arp 143 (above) that is a collisional ring of galaxies. Comet Atlas passed in a very close conjunction to the spiral galaxy PGC 21754 just above the comet's nucleus.

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