Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, through a DSLR lens on Oct 27th, New Jersey
Date: January 3, 2025
Location: Santa Catalina Mountains, Coronado National Forest near Tucson, Arizona.
Altitude: 9,000 feet above sea level
Far from human settlements, in the forests of central Arizona, sits the white dome of an observatory that runs the Mount Lemmon Survey. The survey is part of the Catalina Sky Survey - one of the most prolific surveys for detecting near earth objects. On the night of January 3, its 60 inch Cassegrain telescope diligently scanning the night skies, detected a tiny moving dot a few pixels wide, shifting its position against a fixed background of stars.
