118P/Shoemaker-Levy 2023-Mar-25 Gregg Ruppel

Hi all:

Comet 118P Shoemaker-Levy is a periodic comet that comes around every 6.45 years. On this apparition it brightened up to around 14th magnitude with some estimates slightly brighter. In this image it appears as a small fuzzy ball around magnitude 16:

https://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/118P-Shoemaker-Levy_032523.jpg

1.5X crop:
https://www.greggsastronomy.com/IMAGES/118P-Shoemaker-Levy_032523_crop.jpg

Luminance only, 28 minutes total exposure

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Clear skies,

Gregg
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