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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), Wei-Hao Wang
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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)

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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS), Wei-Hao Wang
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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)

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Tried to get a moderately deep image of the LMC and SMC, and serendipitously captured Comet 2017 K2 (PanSTARRS). It's in the lower-right corner. It's a long period comet from Oort cloud. Its perihelion is on Dec 19, 2022 (about a month before this picture), at a heliocentric distance of about 1.8 AU (Mar's orbit). It's a big comet, but it doesn't catch too many people's attention because it doesn't get closer to the sun.

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