Amateur astronomer Chris Schur captured the shot of a lifetime when he documented the comet 252P/LINEAR in all its turquoise glory on the morning of April 2.

Seen in the gallery above, the image was after the comet made its close pass of Earth back in early April. Using an astrograph set at a 39-minute exposure, Schur got the amazing image of the comet surrounded by brilliant stars.

"I was just able to glimpse this object [with the] naked eye, putting its magnitude near 6 or so," Schur said on his website. "The very faint fan tail points to the left here, but is very tenuous."

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Schur was in the central Arizona town of Payson when he observed and photographed Comet 252P/LINEAR, and viewed it with his binoculars as well as with the naked eye.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was also able to , CNN.com reported. It was one of the telescope's closest observations of any space object other than the moon, the report added.

These images showed Comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by Earth on April 4, 2016.

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The comet came within 3.5 million miles of Earth on March 21, the , according to Live Science. Measuring about 750 feet wide, the comet was discovered by, Space.com said.

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