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C/2020 F3 NEOWISE + reflection nebula NGC 2170
2020 May 25 at 08:50UT.
Visual magnitude 8.5 using 25x100mm binoculars.
This comet has strong potential for naked eye visibility in July, should it survive perihelion, but this may be a case of third time lucky, peaking at magnitude 2-3 as this is a long period object which has survived previous perihelion passages.
It displays a faint ion tail.

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