comet McNaught

Comet McNaught will be reaching perihelion on January 12th. At a magnitude of -1, comet McNaught is the brightest comet since 1975. On January 9th, Vidar Martinsen took several successive photos of comet McNaught and put them together in this animation.

cross-posted at Robot Guy
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