Comet 220P/McNaught Chronology
Taken by Mike Olason on June 19, 2026 @
Tucson, Arizona
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Comet 220P/McNaught erupted or was hit by something May 30-31 which resulted in it brightening by about 7000 times. Since then, 220P has faded in brightness with its coma getting smaller but its dust tail getting longer as observed in this sequence of images from June 3 to June 19. Each image is a raw stack of 30x10 second images with no processing done to them, all taken with a SeeStar S50. The Moon caused major interference from June 6-10 to the images. The magnitudes were calculated using Astrometrica software. The tail gets longer each day but fainter and is harder to observe near the end of this sequence of images without some special processing. Click on the big image to get the best resolution image.
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