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Comet 46P/Wirtanen (no. 653) on the evening of November 27, 2018, when the comet's geocentric distance was 0.134 AU. In the wide-field view on the left, the comet is above the large tree on the right.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen on the evening of December 14, 2018 at a geocentric distance of 0.078 AU, less than two days before its closest approach to Earth. In the wide-field image on the left, the Pleiades star cluster (M45) is in the upper right.
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