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- From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- Subject: Re: P/Swift Tuttle Observation 11/20-21/92
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.183609.23218@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- References: <1992Nov23.162924.12039@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:36:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.162924.12039@linus.mitre.org> chaloux@mandolin.mitre.org
- (Dave Chaloux) writes about his telescopic observation of P/Swift-Tuttle:
- >Two faint stars were noticed directly in line and under the
- >tail at 7:10 p.m. The coma itself was a noticebly blue color which has been
- >mentioned by others. A stellar nucleas is obvious and was roughly centered in
- >the coma.
- >
- >At this point, the clouds rolled back in. This comet is beginning to look like
- >a real beauty. One question that came to mind as I looked at it could not be
- >answered due to the short amount of time I could watch (5 min). The two stars
- >that were directly in line with the tail may in fact have been stars or they
- may
- >have been larger hunks of material that blew off the comet. I guess now I'll
- >never know.
-
- The tail is blown by the extremely small pressure of the solar wind. It can't
- influence macroscopic objects, certainly not ones sufficiently large to be
- visible as points from here. I agree with you; the comet is getting to be very
- nice. I'll get out my own 8" SCT tonight.
-
- Leigh
-