103P/Hartley

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David Cardeñosa found some arcs in the tail on his images of August,20.99 and posted his observation to the Comet Mailing List #16681.
I could confirm his observation on my images of the same day: ML #16682.

103P/Hartley © by Bernhard Haeusler, Germany

© 2010-08-20 by Bernhard Haeusler, Maidbronn, Germany                   

8 x 1 min. exposure, 2010-08-20 UT 01:53, 12" SCT  f-5.65 + CCD ST-10XME
13.42 mag (60x60 box), coma: 11', tail: 2' in PA218

The image is processed by AstroArt 4.0 using the Larson-Sekanina Filter, Delta R = 2, Alpha = 20

Some arcs are visible in direction of the tail.

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