After many cloudy nights, on May 8th I was finally able to image the comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) again in a long series of shots to create a color image. Despite its same appearance, its dust tail continues to appear longer due to our changing perspective from Earth, reaching a length of almost 9 arc minutes in this image. As for its brightness, it remains at magnitude 10.5, waiting for it to resume activity and not compromise its peak brightness too much for October. By the way, below the comet you can see the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4904.

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