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Old 27-12-2014, 12:33 PM
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Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) 26-12-2014 Comet rotation??

Hi,

First of all Arrrrrgghhh!!!

What a pain in the A.. this has been put together. Trying to do the animation and for some reason all the images would get out of sequence, got that sorted.
The comet is moving fast and the tail is changing rapidly so I could only use 10 minutes worth before the tail would blur out.

Now with my rant out of the way, Wow!!!!
This comet is amazing, I've suppled a 27 minute animation which looks like it shows rotation.
Have a look at the bottom three streamers, they seem to twist or rotate over each other.
Of course this just may be perspective, but in any case it's really moving.


http://vid1172.photobucket.com/album...pshib9vfvp.mp4

Cheers,

Justin.
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