I don't know about magnitudes per se, but, if you use averted vision when looking at the graph, you can almost see what appears to be a middle finger. ;) But I could be wrong... Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
One of the panelists in the most recent Deep Impact news conference noted that the comet brightened "by a factor of 5" after the impact. He then alluded to the graphic located at: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/Science/Deep_Impact/NAC_Clear_Lightcurve... Could some of the science types on the list confirm or correct my guess that what all this means is that it brightened briefly by about 1.5 magnitudes?
Thanks,
Patrick
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