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Old 21-12-2013, 02:15 PM
Rob_K
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Comet ISON spectrum, 14 Nov 2011

Home from travels now and I've had a chance to re-visit some of my spectra taken from White Cliffs, NSW. This one is of C/2012 S1 (ISON), taken after it had a massive increase in brightness on around 13 Nov.

The broad diatomic carbon emissions are the principal features - unfortunately the main CN line is outside the range of my camera. The spectrum clearly shows that dust was not a significant contributor to the brightness of the comet at that stage. If it was, the C2 peaks would appear to emerge from a broad hump of sunlight continuum reflectance - of that there is no sign.

VSpec created spurious double peaks on the comet and on the brightest emission line, probably a saturation issue or something. I patched them with dotted lines, and faded the dipping lines.

Cheers -
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