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Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas (A3) from Flagstaff, Arizona, at 7000 ft above sea level. When I was a kid everyone looked forward to the return of Halley's Comet. It arrived in 1986 but it was a disappointment. I saw it but it was just an elongated blob. My eyes were a lot better then so I could make it out but it wasn't what we expected. I saw a couple of comets in the 1990s (Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake). I remember when I was a student at Purdue driving my Dodge Daytona out onto the perfect flat grid of Indiana country roads to see one. My eyes were not great then and I think I had glasses but needed a new prescription and it was a faint, ghostly grey trail across the sky. Finally, we have easy-to-use digital cameras, and just like with my previous post about long exposure photography, it's possible to get excellent photos. I could see the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas (A3)  and the tail with the unaided eye but these photos taken with my iPhone 14 are definitely brighter and clearer than

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