The overlay is rather here to show the sheere amount of galaxies in the background and not so much for identification. Most of them are hardly more than dots in the FOV, hardly distiguishable from stars.
62P/Tsuchinshan, also known as
Tsuchinshan 1, is a periodic comet discovered on 1965 January 1 at Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanking. It will next come to perihelion on 25 December 2023 at around apparent magnitude 8, and will be 0.53 AU (79 million km) from Earth and 110 degrees from the Sun.During the 2004 perihelion passage the comet brightened to about apparent magnitude 11.The comet was not observed during the 2011 unfavorable apparition since the perihelion passage occurred when the comet was on the far side of the Sun. During the 2023 apparition it brightened to 8th magnitude.On 2049 April 1 the comet will pass about 0.016 AU (2,400,000 km; 1,500,000 mi) from Mars.
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Position at date of imaging, image from
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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