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Old 21-01-2007, 10:52 PM
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It's most likely camera shake and trailing of the object across the sensor. John Bortle made the comment on the comets-ml list a few days ago that you would not normally expect nucleus splitting to be seen in camera-based images before it was observed telescopically and with much larger instruments.

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