[AZ-Observing] Comet Holmes
- From: "Keith Parizek" <keithparizek@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:06:43 -0700
Hi- Using a 16 Meade Deep Sky my overwhelming impression is the coma is very
granular to my eye,. I am having trouble seeing a star like nucleus. Because
of the very symetrical appearance of the coma and lack of emission spectra, I
wonder if the cause of this erruption could have been a collision. After all
it is cruising out in the asteroid belt is it not? Would an impact necessarily
generate a spherical coma or are we just seeing a perspective of a coma that
looks spherical from our vantage point?
Regards
Keith Parizek
Rio Verde, Az.
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