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Comet LINEAR C/2001 A2, July 3rd, 2001

Original drawing made using white pencil on black paper:

Same drawing on a white background:

Comet LINEAR C/2001 A2, July 3, 2001, 7:40-7:50 UT, seeing 5, transparency 3.0 with partly cloudy skies.

Astro-Physics 5.1" f/8.35 EDF refractor on homemade Dobsonian-style mount. Magnification 40x, field of view: 1.61 degrees.

Pseudo-nucleus appeared brighter then coma, with the coma relatively large and circular in shape.