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Just an update on C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) - the tail lives on, nearly 4 months after the comet disintegrated. The Earth recently passed through the comet's orbital plane which enabled us to see the tail edge-on, per attached pic taken on 30 April. Over 6-deg of tail is showing in the pic and with a wider field I was able to faintly detect a tail length of 12.4 degrees. It is now over 400 million kilometres from Earth. At the moment the tail is widening, dispersing and fading as we move away from the orbital plane.
Cheers -
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