Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto on February 10th, 2019, three days after its perihelion and three days before its closest approach to Earth. Its ionic tail is faintly visible toward West (to right) in this image, at the same time it is possible to see a dust tail toward Southeast (to down-left), only during these days in which our planet crosses the orbital plane of the comet. Iwamoto also reached in those days its maximum brightness with a magnitude near 6.5 and a coma with angular size of 20'. The brightest star into field is Chi Leonis with magnitude 4.6.

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