Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
Taken by Mike Olason on March 25, 2026 @
Tucson, Arizona
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Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) has brightened a few magnitudes in the last several days as it now moves closer to the Sun and into the evening twilight. The comet was magnitude 8.8 with a coma 3.5 arc minutes wide and had a thin pencil tail about 1/4 degree long visible in these images taken in evening twilight 3.4 degrees above the horizon. Click on the large image to get a better resolution image.
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