Search results for: when it had an estimated magnitude of 4.7. The comet tail was 3.5 degrees long when imaged with CCD. On 12 September 2023 the comet passed 0.84 AU (126 million km; but was only 15 degrees from the glare of the Sun. Then on 17 September 2023 it will come to perihelion 0.22 AU from the 26.8K 78 million mi; 330 LD) from Earth 191 3166 Sun. The comet will be briefly in the evening sky in mid September