[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by allan gould

Nice images all round. Havnt seen it yet - damned light pollution and neighbours

Thanks Allan!

Hope you get to observve it soon.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

i agree the light pollution kills it for me as well

Ditto for you David!

Originally Posted by MortonH

Nothing on the web about a disconnection event, but maybe you were the first to see it!

Thanks Morton!

I've emailed the image to Michael Mattiazzo, our southern comets man.
Hopefully he'll have a better idea.

Originally Posted by Scorpius51

Here are a few links for other comets, describing the processes:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...ews/encke.html

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/halebopp/disconnect/

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/personn...lReconnect.pdf

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/News+and+Events/4831.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F8KsOs3ls

http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/...1977.text.html

Cheers
John

Thanks for all that info!

The 2007 event with Comet Encke is amazing!

Cheers,

Justin.