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[Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stan,

Check your images for background stars. The comet has moved through 
some fair bright star fields and it can be misleading. Last night it 
was hard to tell the core from a star until a later image showed 
which was the star, as the core moved relative to the star field.

Are you using your SBIG or DSI Pro for the imaging?

Jeff

At 16:40 -0700 11/02/2007, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>Recall that on on Oct 24th I reported seeing three points of light 
>in the nucleus. This would make it a triple nucleus instead of the 
>double that Brian reported on that night. No one responded to my 
>report or my follow up message below. Apparently, at least in email 
>messages to Az-Observing, no one else saw the triple nucleus I saw. 
>I just now looked at S&T's web site on the comet and others have 
>reported seeing it. In fact, one person makes reference to seeing 
>three in an image he took. It is interesting no one seems to have 
>taken such an image whose link was posted in Az-Observing. Maybe 
>they have but I haven't looked at everything, including drawings, 
>because of the slow dial up speed I have here. It is gratifying to 
>know that I did see this on the 24th, but it is also interesting 
>that no one else in AZ-Observing reported seeing it.
>Stan

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