Comet 220P/McNaught fading
Taken by Mike Olason on June 8, 2026 @
Tucson, Arizona
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After the major eruption at the end of May that increased its brightness by some 7000 times, Comet 220P/McNaught is now starting to fade as the effects from the eruption subside, resulting in a smaller coma and a longer dust tail. The images from June 6 and June 8 showed the comet at magnitudes 9.2 and 10.6 with the comet coma getting smaller and the dust tail longer, although the Moon did interfere with these images which undoubtedly hid some of the coma and tail length and thus the magnitude calculations were also affected by the nearby Moon.
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