[Chaos-l] [Fwd: Re: Nice Animated GIF Of Comet Lulin]

[Robert Nielsen]

Allen,

Yeah ... too bad we couldn't see the subtle smoke-like dust tail as 
clearly as in the photos, but yes, we could see the subtle tail.

Robert

E. Allen Davis wrote:
> And I will say Robert that what we saw visually Friday night/Saturday morning is born out by this image...We did see a very faint averted imagination sort of "tail".  allen
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> From: "Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
> To: "chaos >> Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
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> Subject: 	Re: [Chaos-l] Nice Animated GIF Of Comet Lulin
> Date: 	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:24:36 -0500
> From: 	Robert Nielsen <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
> Reply-To: 	robertnielsen at nc.rr.com
> To: 	Terry Crook <terrycrook at earthlink.net>
> References: 	<49A42822.7030909 at nc.rr.com> 
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> Terry,
>
> An explanation of why we see two tails (one a dust tail and one an ion 
> tail) is visually given at: 
> http://www.sidleach.com/comet_c2007_n3_lulin_antitail.htm.
>
> I'm not entirely sure ... but looking at the rough general area of the 
> sky where Comet Lulin was last Saturday, and matching up some of the 
> stars, I would say the bright star is beta Virginis, or Zavijava.  And I 
> think the faint galaxy above the comet when it starts is NGC 4073 ... 
> although there are a lot of galaxies in that area.
>
> Robert
>
> Terry Crook wrote:
>   
>> Remarkable pix, thanks! I would have gone out to look for it locally 
>> (with binocs) but have been fighting a nasty sinus infection lately!
>> Two questions (for anyone):
>>         What is the star in the upper right center?
>>         If the Sun is to the right (w/ tail extending behind comet), 
>> what is the variable cloud ahead at about 1'oclock?
>>
>> At 12:02 PM 2/24/2009, Robert Nielsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Everyone,
>>>
>>> This has been making the rounds on some astronomy forums: 
>>> http://www.ccdargo.com/lulin.gif
>>>
>>> It's a really nice animated GIF of Comet Lulin, taken last Saturday 
>>> night where 61 images cover about 2 hours of the comet's movement 
>>> against the star background.
>>>
>>> Credit: Tom Carrico
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
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