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Nick James
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Courtesy of the BAA/Comet Chasers group I have processed some data obtained earlier today from the 2.0-m f/5.2 RC Foulkes Telescope North (F65). This has an image scale of 0.27″/pix. This image is resampled by a factor of 2 and is 2.3 arcmin square. It is a stack of 3x10s images taken at half the comet’s offset rate.

It shows a separate, faint apparent fragment just ahead of C and an elongated bright area behind A. It also confirms the demise of fragment B.