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Originally Posted by Astroman
Agreed, I had a look at both my close-ups and cannot see any condensed objects within the nucleus, only background stars..
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No mate, your shot doesn't have the resolution whereas Rob's has. There's a very thin "spine" right up near the head of the comet, just behind the hood. In it are very, very small points of light that are stretched out along the spine, back towards the tail end of the head. You couldn't take any accurate astrometric reading off these, they're just too small. Rob McNaught spoke to Les (Dalrymple) about this and was complaining about how hard the readings off the head were
. He can see the spine running back from the head of the comet. I'm waiting on an email from Gabriel Brammer at Paranal, to see if he was able to get a look at the head to see what was there. But hotmail has decided to take a holiday and I can't access my email!!!!.