Re: [BAA Comets] C/2024 G3 in SOHO LASCO C3
Janice McClean 14 Jan 2025 22:30 UTC
That really does look spectacular!
J
> On 14 Jan 2025, at 21:17, Nick James <ndj@nickdjames.com> wrote:
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> C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is now past perihelion and it is still looking very healthy. I've just posted an animation of the comet moving through the SOHO LASCO C3 field of view which was constructed from the raw FITS file and so it maintains all of the available dynamic range. The background solar corona has been removed by subtracting a min stacked reference image using data from January 1st. The animation is here:
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> https://britastro.org/observations/observation.php?id=20250114_211401_cc96625da78ff2ec
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> The comet currently has a very spectacular tail.
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> Nick.
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