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[AZ-Observing] Re: Thermal Brightening from the Impactor?

  • From: Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:13:18 -0700 (MST)
>>  Two minutes after the predicted impact time, I saw a faint unstructured
>>  spot appear that was about 10 to 15 arcseconds wide."

     This might be reasonable if there is decimal place missing:
1.0 to 1.5 arcseconds wide.  Carl Hergenrother's 61-inch observations
down in Tucson showed that the brightening right after impact was
confined to the seeing-disc of the pseudo-nucleus, which rules out the
10-15 arcseconds figure.

\Brian
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