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Catching Lemmon’s tail

Allen Hwang from Deming, New Mexico

Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) is becoming harder to observe with the waxing Moon, but this imager caught a dynamic hour-long episode where its tail “looked like billowing smoke” on Halloween evening. He used an 11-inch Celestron RASA scope, taking four 60-second subframes.