[AZ-Observing] Re: Robotic Lulin Shot last night

  • From: Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>
  • To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:12:03 -0500

It's an especially intense anti-tail because we are in the comet's orbital 
plane when it is only 0.4 a.u. away from us.  When it comes to opposition in a 
few days, the coma will be obscuring the tail, and we should see a comet with 
only an anti-tail.

Tom

---- Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Very strange, this comets anti tail appears to be green as well. Never seen 
> that before!
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