Now You See It and Now You Don't! Comet LINEAR Blows Up in Full View of the JKT

Kidger, M.
Referencia bibliográfica

The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 3, p. 11-13

Fecha de publicación:
9
2000
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Descripción
When I was assigned the time in La Palma on the JKT, I gave thanks for my extraordinary luck that the observations were scheduled exactly at the perihelion of Comet LINEAR, or C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) as it is correctly known. This would be able to get data on the comet at the start of each night without interrupting the main programme. At the time I hoped that Comet LINEAR might become a reasonable spectacle. Never did I imagine that I would have a front seat for an amazing spectacle -but not the one that I had expected.