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A Kinematographic Study of the Tail of Comet Kohoutek (1973f)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2018

K. Jockers ,
R. G. Roosen  and
D. P. Cruikshank

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By combining observations of Comet Kohoutek (1973 f) made in the Southwest US, Alaska and Hawaii, a cometary tail movie has been made. Parts of the movie were shown at the conference and some frames of the movie are reproduced in Fig. 1, In this paper we give some details of the observations and describe what we see on the movie.

Observers who contributed to the movie are listed in Table 1 with their institutions, instruments, and site locations. In all but one case, fast Schmidt cameras were used; high-speed optics are needed for this work because the interval between successive pictures should not exceed 15 minutes if plasma tail motions are to be properly visualized. The 36 cm f/2 Schmidt camera of the Joint Observatory for Cometary Research (JOCR) is clearly well-suited because of its flat field of about 8 x 10°.

Type
Part I
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part1: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 370 - 377
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1976

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