Comet 13P/Olbers imaged on July 27, 2024, a week after its closest approach to Earth. It is the first image I was able to capture from my observatory when the comet began to rise above my neighbor's tree. With a magnitude 7 brightness, it has a greenish coma with an angular size of 6 arcminutes. The comet features three tails; the most prominent one is a wide dust tail pointing northeast (upper left) with half a degree of length, over which a narrow bluish ion tail is superimposed, and another extremely faint dust tail extends towards the northwest (upper right). The comet is located between the constellations of Ursa Major and Leo Minor, with the tiny edge-on galaxy UGC 6036, magnitude 14.6, standing out in the view.

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