Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  Solar system body or event
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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023, Dan Bartlett
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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023

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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023, Dan Bartlett
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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023

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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023.  At the time Comet 2P/ Encke was travelling as a foreground object nearing M36 it was a faint 12th magnitude comet.   In this 92 x60 seconds of stacked subframes brought out some of the richness of the Auriga starfield.  I'm looking forward to this comet brightening considerably as it approaches October's perihelion.

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2P/ Encke Nears Open Cluster Messier 36 on August 25, 2023, Dan Bartlett

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