C73P B component in outburst
This is reposted from Crinklaw's posting in another newsgroup: "Component B of comet 73P has brightened significantly in the last few nights and is now as bright as 5th magnitude. It has been reported as a naked eye object even in moonlight. In images this component is also showing a great deal of activity in its nucleus, including jets and arcs." - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
So far tonight I've imaged all of the fragments but one (I'll get that one in an hour or so). Only one that shows anything of note and that's B. It is bright for a comet. Just a one second exposure overexposes the coma. But I don't know about it being naked eye. I can see it in 7x35s but not naked eye. Patrick Canopus56 wrote:
This is reposted from Crinklaw's posting in another newsgroup:
"Component B of comet 73P has brightened significantly in the last few nights and is now as bright as 5th magnitude. It has been reported as a naked eye object even in moonlight. In images this component is also showing a great deal of activity in its nucleus, including jets and arcs."
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: <snip> It wouldn't run on a Windows 2002 machine with QuickTime 6. Moving to a Windows XP Pro 2003 machine with QuickTime 7, it has the required codex and runs fine. Nice work Patrick. - C __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Patrick Wiggins wrote:
So far tonight I've imaged all of the fragments but one (I'll get that one in an hour or so). Only one that shows anything of note and that's B.
Turns out the one I missed with the first pass (C) was nearly as bright as B. Here's a 30 second exposure. Field is about 18' x 26'. http://utahastro.info/temp/C30.JPG http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C30.JPG Patrick p.s. Both links go to the same image. I'd appreciate hearing if either does not work.
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