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Comet Linear 217P

Started by cosmoscrazy, 10/01/2009 05:55AM
Posted 10/01/2009 05:55AM Opening Post
I found comet Linear 217P lurking near NGC 1977 in some data I have been collecting. Linear 217P is a periodic comet with a 7.8 year orbit.

The comet was moving too fast for stacking, so I overprocessed all of the frames and created an animation.

Details and animation here:
http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=2212&UserID=40

Peter