Comet 176P/LINEAR and 2 Asteroids
Taken by Mike Olason on December 12, 2017 @
Denver, Colorado
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The animation is 3 images each 900 seconds long taken from 0942-1027UT on 2017/12/12. Comet 176P/LINEAR is magnitude 19.1 and is slightly left of center. Asteroid 27170 is to the left and up a little from 176P and Asteroid 64716 is to the far right of 176P. Both asteroids are about magnitude 18. There are a couple other hard to see asteroids in the animation that are about magnitude 20. The separate image shows the position of 176P and the asteroids.
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