Comet C/2018 W2 (Africano) imaged on August 9th, 2019, when it was passing near open star cluster IC 361, located in Camelopardalis and containing about 60 stars between magnitudes 11 and 18. In this image the external coma appears very faint and with an angular size of only 2 arcminutes, elongated at anti-solar direction (towards west). Visual observations on these date reported the comet with a magnitude around 11.

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