Comet 46P/Wirtanen in its thirteenth apparition, located on constellation Fornax and shining at magnitude 7 was photographed in this wide field image taken through a photo-lens from Namibian austral dark skies. Its turquoise coma reaches 45 arcminutes, larger than the full moon, and will be growing in size and brightness until its maximum approach to Earth on December. In the image a short ionic tail toward the northeast is visible.

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