--- diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
The elongation looks to be 90 degrees to it's direction of travel based on the position of the tail in the second photo... So I don't know.
I guess the solar wind that makes the ion tail is much faster than the motion of the comet itself. http://home.att.net/~dpersyk/new.htm Here is a photo taken the other way, tracking on the comet head instead of the stars. Notice that the hammerhead look is gone from the comet but the stars are all stretched out. It looks to me like the comet is moving north slowly and a strong wind from the east is blowing the tail to the west. DT DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com