[AZ-Observing] Re: Deep Impact

Hello dean,

As Stan said, probably about 7.5 minutes for it to start brightening. 
The ejected material will continue to spread so I suspect it may 
continue to brighten for hours and possibly days, but the biggest 
jump in brightness may happen within an hour possibly less. Noone 
knows for sure just what will happen, however, so that will be the 
fun of it.

Jeff

At 18:03 -0700 6/25/05, ketelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Jeff-
>Do you have an estimate of how fast it may/will brighten?  It certainly
>won't stay above our horizon for very long...  Just wondering if an
>increase in brightness will take minutes or hours.
>
>-Dean

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