Schmidt camera plates of comet Bradfield were secured on several nights in October 1987. The images of October 20 show the development of a huge bend in the plasma tail travelling several hundred kilometers per second down the tail; the likely solar-wind origin of this event is being explored. A charged coupled device (CCD) detector has been obtained. Calibration of the CCD is still underway, but high-quality, filtered cometary images shoud be possible in the near future.


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    Title :

    Imaging studies of comets


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1988-08-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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