[BAA Comets] Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) + 8 degree anti-tail

Richard Miles rmiles.btee at btinternet.com
Sun May 26 02:16:35 BST 2013


Despite a nearly full moon in the sky, 20-minute stacked exposures were 
sufficient to trace the anti-tail to at least 8.0 degrees in length on 2013 
May 25.97, just 1 day before our line-of-sight crosses this comet's orbital 
plane.

http://www.britastro.org/~rmiles/Images/C2011L4_20130525_Miles1.jpg

Richard Miles
BAA




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