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This animation shows the central 7 arcminutes of the coma of C/2022 E3 sampled at 0.56 "/pixel. It has been processed using a Larson-Sekanina filter with a rotation of 25 degrees.
Each of the three frames is 7x60s. The outflow in the anti-solar direction aligned with the ion tail is clear in PA 320. There is another apparent outflow in PA 180.

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