Comet C/2020 R4 (ATLAS) imaged on April 9th, 2021, with a brightness near magnitude 9, shows in this image its green coma with an angular size about 4 arcminutes and a tail to anti-sunward direction with about 3 arcminutes in length. Located in the Milky Way and on the edge of the Serpens-Aquila-Rift (on the right), a dark cloud region of interstellar dust, it is also next to the bluish star 19 Aquilae shining at magnitude 5.

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