COOOOL! --- On Sun, 10/10/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:

From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 103P animation from this morning (2010 OCT 10) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Sunday, October 10, 2010, 8:36 PM On 10 Oct 2010, at 20:28, Siegfried Jachmann wrote:

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Very nice.

Thanks.

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Was that a green laser you threw in there?

No, that was the ion train left behind by the starship following the comet.  Apparently they goofed and left it on during that one exposure.  (Note to anyone from the Coast to Coast radio show that might be reading this:  I'm kidding!).

:)

patrick

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On 2010-10-10 14:39, erikhansen wrote:

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the animation really brings out the tail

15 ten second images of the comet strung together

in 3 ways.  Images were

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taken this morning (10 October) between 0917

and 1030 UTC (0317-0430

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MDT):

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http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/103P2010OCT10/103P_HARTLEY.2010OC T10.GIF

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http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/103P2010OCT10/103P_2010OCT10.AVI

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http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/103P2010OCT10/103P_2010OCT10.MP4

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patrick

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