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Old 21-09-2009, 06:25 AM
dpastern (Dave Pastern)
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Originally Posted by Rob_K View Post
Thanks all! By contrast, the other fairly bright comet in our skies at the moment, C/2006 W3 Christensen, shows up in my images as pure white, with a white coma. Must say something about their relative amounts of ionised gas & dust.

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Christensen was a lot brighter to my eyes and had a tighter nucleus with less coma.

Dave
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