Thanks to Comet Chasers we have a close-up of this latest outburst taken with a 2.0-m telescope and showing that the ejected debris cloud is relatively symmetrical about the nucleus. Definitely not one of the Pac-Man type, which suggests that the source was not near the limb of the nucleus at the time of the outburst: |
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