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Originally Posted by renormalised
Nice shots Rob 
I was just looking at the close up of the head of the comet. I don't know if it's just my eyes or it's actually there, but it looks like the nucleus of the comet may have broken up into 5 or so "string of pearl" segments. You can see a very faint trail of dots aligned up behind one another right near the front of the head. Could just be an artifact of processing (or my eyes like I said ), but there maybe something there.
Really needs a bigger scope to check it out. |
Thanks Carl. Yes, I noticed those, and they appear in each of the three subs that were stacked to produce this. There was very slight comet movement between each sub (a couple of pixels). I was going to make a stack on the comet head but as you can see it's very difficult to pick a point (a difficulty which has apparently made precise astrometry a problem). So I stacked on the stars. If those dots were part of the comet they would have gone an obvious bean shape. They didn't so they must be a chance alignment of underlying field stars.
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