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Wide field image taken with the 8 m Subaru telescope and the Hyper Suprime-Cam, taken on 2016/03/08 when the comet was at 2.5 AU from the Sun. (a) Full field of view of the Hyper Suprime-Cam (single frame), showing the region containing the comet. (b) Extracted comet region (62.3×14.2 arcmin), total of 10 × 6 min exposures stacked. (c) Same images median combined after shifting to account for comet motion.
